The Art of Sewanee

Spring 2007

SewaneePublished for alumni and friends of the University of the South

The Art of Sewanee Treasures from the University collection In this issue Enduring Visions Treasures from the University’s collections illustrate a departments tradition of cultural philanthropy. PAGE 12 Vice Chancellor’s Corner 4 Theologia 36 Viewpoints 5 Sports 38 A Wealth of Hope As Nobel Peace Prize winners Muhammad Yunus, H’98, On the Mountain 7 Alumni News 40 and the Grameen Bank offer life-changing opportunities forB angladeshis, Student Life 26 Class Notes 41 Sewanee students and alumni marvel and are changed, as well. PAGE 18 History 28 In Memoriam 58 Faculty 30, 35 Afterword 62 Sewanee Pays it Forward Rebuilding the library of Cuttington University The Sewanee Call 31 in Liberia. PAGE 22 On the cover: Two of Sewanee’s art treasures: a silver ewer by Tiffany and Company, designed by Edward Chandler Moore, ca. 1860-1870; and a print by John James Audobon, ca. 1829, Male Winter Hawk with Bullfrog. On this page: Stirling’s Coffee House is a popular location on warm spring days. Photo by Woodrow Blettel. Editor Laura Barlament Magazine Advisory Council Send address changes to: where preference is given to individuals of the Associate Editors Susan Blettel, Pamela Byerly Alumni Members: Julian Bibb, C’97; Jack Hitt, Office of University Relations Episcopal faith and except for those employment Graphic Designer Susan Blettel C’79; Paige Parvin, C’93; Rondal K. Richardson, 735 University Avenue, Sewanee, TN 37383-1000 positions where religious affiliation is a necessary Class Notes Editors Mary Blount, C’80; Catherine C’91, Associated Alumni Vice President for Phone: 800.367.1179 qualification). The University of the South Ann Whelchel, C’10 Communications; John Sullivan, C’97; Jennie E-mail: [email protected] complies with the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Title IX Photographers Woodrow Blettel, Bethany Goodrum Turrell, C’93 of the Educational Amendments of 1972, the Davis, C’07, Daniel Fort, C’80, Jamey I.R.S. Anti-Bias Regulation, Section 504 of the Lowdermilk, C’04, Christie Caldwell, C’99, Faculty/Staff Members: Virginia Ottley Craighill, The University of the South does not discriminate Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans Mary O’Neill, Charley Watkins C’82, Visiting Assistant Professor of English; Jett M. in employment, the admission of students, or with Disabilities Act. The Provost of the University Fisher, C’79, Executive Director of the Associated Sewanee is published quarterly by the University Alumni; Karen Kuers, Associate Professor of in the administration of any of its educational of the South, Ms. Linda Bright Lankewicz, 735 of the South, including the College of Arts and Forestry and Geology; Christopher McDonough, policies, programs, or activities on the basis of University Avenue, Sewanee TN, 37383-1000, Sciences and the School of Theology, and is dis- Associate Professor of Classical Languages; Gayle race, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual 931-598-1000, is the person responsible for tributed without charge to alumni, parents, faculty, McKeen, Associate Professor of Political Science; orientation, age, disability, veteran/reserve/ coordinating the University’s effort to comply with students, staff and friends of the University. Robert W. Pearigen, C’76, Vice President for national guard status, or religion (except in the these laws. © Copyright 2007, Sewanee. All rights reserved. University Relations. School of Theology’s Master of Divinity program, vicevice chancellor’schancellor’s corner corner viewpoints

Dear Sewanee Alumni and Friends, Just as work on this issue of Sewanee was nearing completion, we received the splendid news that three members of the College Class of 2007 – Syeda Hamadani, Joshua Harris, and Luke Padgett – have been awarded Thomas J. Watson Fellowships for 2007-08. They will be among the fifty graduating seniors from outstanding liberal arts colleges and universities across the country who will be given the opportunity to carry out a year of international travel and study on a subject about which they are deeply passionate. Many of you recall the cover article in last summer’s issue of Sewanee on the extraordinary experiences of several of Sewanee’s thirty-three previous Watson Fellows, and you will enjoy reading 1996-97 Watson Fellow Elizabeth Harris’s, C’96, letter on page six of this issue, in which she remembers warmly the role late Professor of Political Science Gilbert Gilchrist had in connecting her with the Watson program. We are grateful to the Thomas J. Watson Foundation and to Rosemary Macedo, the Watson Fellowship Program’s Executive Director and her colleagues, for making these opportunities possible and to Sewanee Associate Professor of Music Stephen Miller and the other members of the University’s Watson Fellowship committee for their great work in identifying and assisting Sewanee’s candidates. Here are brief summaries of Sewanee’s new Watson Fellows’ plans for 2007-08: n Syeda Hamadani, a Chemistry and Spanish major from Nashville, Tennessee, will travel to Morocco, Spain, Peru, Venezuela, and Argentina to study the legacy of Muslim culture in the Spanish-speaking world. In her proposal she said “being an immigrant, a Muslim, and a student of Spanish, I seek to discover the beauty of the Muslim past and its current dynamics as they pertain to the Hispano-Muslim identity.” n Joshua Harris, an English and Russian major from Batesville, Arkansas, will carry out a project on “Blades and Rails” in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Russia (Kaliningrad), Belarus, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary. He summarized his aspirations: “As I engage my passions for travel, Slavic culture, and hockey in distant lands, I will improve my language skills, my cultural sensitivity, and, no doubt, my game as well.” n luke Padgett, a Geology major from Apison, Tennessee, will visit Morocco, Germany, Poland, Russia, the United Kingdom, the Dominican Republic, Madagascar, China, and Mongolia to study “Tales of Deep Time: Profit, Science, Perception and the Global Fossil Trade.” He wrote, “I hope to discover how the cultural, scientific, and economic value of fossils from around the world is influenced by the human perception of ancient life.” It is a joy to celebrate the selection of these Watson Fellows and to wish each of them all the best in these exciting explorations. The recognition of these three seniors also reflects the remarkable engagement of Sewanee students and faculty in passionate devotion to their scholarly interests. We are blessed to have reached the $150-million milestone in the Sewanee Call Capital Campaign and are deeply grateful for the generosity of donors such as Douglas Hawkins, C’54 , David Beecken, C’68, and Wm. Polk Carey, H’06, whose gifts will make a major difference in opportunities for Sewanee students through many generations to come. We are proud of Professor of French George Poe’s selection as Tennessee’s Professor of the Year for 2006; of Owen Professor of Economics’ Yasmeen Mohiuddin’s work with Nobel-Peace-Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus, H’98; of the University of the South’s contributions to the rebuilding of Cuttington University in Liberia; and of much more that is reported in the pages that follow. I hope you will enjoy reading this fine issue, the last credited to outstanding editor Laura Barlament. As I write, it is spring break on the Mountain. The daffodils are in full bloom. The redbud is peeking out in Abbo’s Alley, and the dogwood buds are swelling. I hope you will come for a walk in the woods whenever you can. Hurrah for Syeda, Josh, and Luke, and for Sewanee.

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editor’s note

t’s my last day as a University of the South employee, and I feel as if I have thousands of tiny, sticky strings attached to me, holding me here; as if I were walking through Abbo’s Alley in the fall and literally becoming entangled by the spider webs Iacross the path. This might be a feeling familiar to any Sewanee graduate nearing commencement. At any rate, Luke Padgett, C’07, who’s set to graduate in May, sympathized Wooden boats, still elegant under a mantle of snow, when I saw him this week at Sewanee’s Blue Chair Café. attract interest on the front lawn of the duPont I got to know Luke when I was organizing a program for the Friends of duPont Library. A Library while inside Robb White, writer, boat- writer, boat-builder, and naturalist named Robb White was coming to give a talk on “Old-Time builder and naturalist, delivers a Friends of the Naturalists.” One of my work-study students, Sandy Kern, C’07, lived in the Eco-House (a Library talk. Below: Luke Padgett’s poster. dorm for students who work together on environmental initiatives), and she suggested that Luke, a fellow Eco-House resident, might be interested in helping publicize the event. I contacted Luke through e-mail, and a few days later, he had designed a beautiful poster. He sent it to Print Services and even helped to post it around campus. All I did was pay for it. We had an overflow crowd that day in February 2006. It was a most unusual Friends of the Library event. Robb White had (sadly, he is now deceased) a huge following in the wooden boat community — a new concept to me — and several fellow boat- builders brought their elegant skiffs to be displayed in front of the library, where they were covered by a gentle snow that fell in the twilight. I finally met Luke at that event. I recognized him from a Sewanee theater production in which he had played the lead role as a freshman. Luke, by the way, is a geology major, and spent last summer digging up dinosaur bones out West. CNN did a long Web feature on that project in which Luke was quoted more than the graduate- student participants. And what about the connection to Robb White? How did that come about? Space and time fail me to write all that should be written about Francis Walter, T’57, the retired priest and civil rights crusader, who knew Robb White’s father (by the way, Robb’s sister is Bailey White, the writer and National Public Radio commentator from southwest Georgia) and began a correspondence with Robb so delightful and original — really, both men’s letters ought to be edited and published. I will be moving to New York City tomorrow, but I believe I’ll have more than a few strands of this Sewanee spider web still trailing along behind me. — Laura Barlament

[Laura Barlament left Sewanee on January 12, 2007.]

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from our readers

‘A Unique Strength’ A Program for All Ages I was struck by Arnie Frishman’s, C’87, description of hearing In today’s mail I re- about the Watson Fellowship from a “chance meeting with Dr. ceived a copy of Sewanee, Gilchrist” who called him over from across the Quad to tell him fall 2006, and have about the opportunity (“Year of Wanders: Graduates discover the read at once the ar- world, and themselves, through the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship,” ticle “Where the Wild summer 2006). I had a similar experience with both Dr. Gilchrist Things Learn.” Al- and Dean Mary Sue Cushman, neither of whom did I ever have as though I am 88, I wish a professor. I could attend such As a member of the Universi- a session [the Island ty Orchestra with Dr. Gilchrist, Ecology Program]. I I will always remember his en- have been to St. Catherine’s Island for a hasty but fascinating survey thusiasm in recording our of its plant life. concerts, going out of his way George Rogers to deliver cassette copies to all Rincon, Georgia who were interested, and his entertaining performances in Gilbert and Sullivan pro- Correction ductions, which I watched Ann A. Buchanan of Brownsville, Texas, pointed out that in our from the orchestra pit. Dean history feature of the fall issue (“Leading the Charge,” pages 38–39) Cushman was a calm and the youthful Dr. William Crawford Gorgas was assigned by the Army steady presence from the to Fort Brown (not “Bowen”), Texas, where he met his future wife. time I was a prospective We regret the error. student to the time I spent with her on various campus committees. When it came time to consider the Watson, both encouraged me to apply, and both critically evaluated my final Write to us application. I have always been and will always be grateful for their interest and insight. Faculty who encourage students to step beyond what they think write to us We welcome letters. Letters should refer to material published in the they are capable of are good professors. Faculty who encourage stu- magazine and include the writer’s full name, address, and telephone dents that they have never taught in the classroom, but have come number. The editor reserves the right to determine the suitability of let- to know through campus life, are fully engaged professors, and I ters for publication and to edit them for accuracy and length. Opinions suspect a unique strength of the Sewanee community. expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the University. Elizabeth Harris, C’96 Write to: Sewanee magazine Chapel Hill, North Carolina Office of Communications and Marketing, 735 University Avenue, Sewanee, TN 37383-1000 Read more about Elizabeth’s Watson year and many more stories at . “Letter to the Editor” in the subject line.

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on the mountain “Great things happen when forward-looking vision and dedication to teaching come together.” A n n a I g o u , C ’ 9 9

George Poe is Tennessee’s 2006 Professor of the Year

For the third time in five years, a member of the University faculty has been named the Tennessee Professor of the Year. George Poe, professor of French at Sewanee since 1988, received the honor from the Carn- egie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advance- ment and Support of Education (CASE) in November. His award follows those bestowed on Bran Potter, Annie Overton Brinkley Snowden Professor of Geology, in 2002 and on Cassie Mansfield, associate professor of art history, in 2003. Poe, who received his Ph.D. from Duke University, has taught 30 different courses on French language, literature, and culture, both in the U.S. and abroad. He also George Poe, professor of French, in the atrium of Gailor Hall. founded the Sewanee in France summer program, has served as his department’s foreign-study advisor, and has always played Still, the many students who think of a significant role in French House and Poe as both a friend and mentor say that, Cercle Français activities at Sewanee. among a constellation of brilliant teachers, Poe himself was careful to point out the for them Poe’s star shines a little brighter. talent of the Sewanee faculty as a whole. “A “Although I know that he doesn’t expect teaching award at a place like Sewanee must any sort of recognition for his teaching, always go beyond the individual recipient he — of all people — deserves it,” says Anna and reflect more broadly on the teachers Igou, C’99. and learners that generously contribute “As his scholarly work correctly suggests, to an environment in which an awardee he has a firm foot in traditional French has been able to put forth her or his best study. What makes him so special, though, effort,” he says. He cites major initiatives, is that his vision extends well beyond that. like the University’s Center for Teaching, Great things happen when forward-look- and smaller programs, like weekly faculty ing vision and dedication to teaching come discussions and lunches with students, with together. Dr. Poe continues to enrich the helping all faculty members become better college, the department, and — most im- teachers. portantly — the lives of students.”

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Sesquicentennial Students produce pictorial history of the University Celebration planned for 2007–2008 Ecce Quam Bonum: A Pictorial History of the University chael Burgess, M.D., (Texas) during 2004 of the South was compiled and written by Em- and 2005 and on the House Committee on Sewanee will celebrate the 150th ily Senefeld, C’05, and Eric Wilson, C’07. Energy and Commerce in 2006. anniversary of its founding starting Their book reviews the history of the Uni- Sean Tapper Suarez assisted the authors in July, 2007. Plans for the year- versity through photographs from with the photography and im- long sesquicentennial celebration the archives and family age scanning for the book. include a lecture series, celebratory collections. The images Suarez is a Benedict Scholar events, special publications, and and captions chronicle in the college of arts and other activities. Sewanee’s growth through sciences. He serves on the An early morning celebra- its buildings from the first board of trustees and the tion on Lookout Mountain on post-Civil War cabins to strategic planning commit- Wednesday, July 4, 2007, will the present. tee. Suarez has worked as commemorate the 1857 gathering Senefeld graduated a research intern for the of representatives from 10 dioceses summa cum laude from Sesquicentennial History who met there on the same day to the University of the South Project and the depart- name the first board of trustees for in 2005 earning an honors ment of forestry. the new University. degree in American history. The book is the first The event, sponsored by the At Sewanee, she was a Wilkins of three in the Sewanee Sewanee Club of Chattanooga Scholar and a member of Phi Sesquicentennial History Project series. and the University, will conclude Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa and It was directed by Samuel R. Williamson, with the beginning of the Char- Phi Alpha Theta. From 2005 to 2006 she vice chancellor emeritus, and Gerald Smith, ter Relay — a cycling relay from served as research assistant for the Sewanee professor of religion. Lookout Mountain to Sewanee. Sesquicentennial History Project. In 2006 Two more books are planned for the Riders are expected to arrive on Senefeld was an intern at the National Mu- fall of 2007. The first is a narrative history campus in time to participate in seum of American History in Washington, authored by Williamson and the second is the community’s 4th of July parade D.C., (the Smithsonian Institute) and was a collection of essays by Sewanee professors at 2 p.m. the recipient of the University’s Colonial and alumni. Additional events are planned Dames Award for excellence in American Ecce Quam Bonum is on sale at the around the Founders’ Day Con- history. University Book Store, and online at vocation during the second week Wilson will graduate in May 2007 with . spring of 2008. See the Sesqui- a Wilkins Scholar, former President of the centennial website for detailed Order of Gownsmen, University Proctor Photograph above: On January 23, Sewanee’s schedules at . University Choir. He is a member of the Bonum: A Pictorial History of the Univer- Board of Directors of the Sewanee Trust for sity of the South. Pictured from left to right: Sean Historic Preservation. Wilson served as an Suarez, Jerry Smith, Sam Williamson, Emily Senefeld intern in the office of Congressman -Mi and Eric Wilson.

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Preparing for life and work: alumni volunteers help students plan future “Beyond the Gates”

More than 100 juniors and seniors returned to campus prior to the start of the semester to participate in Beyond the Gates: Preparing for Life and Work After Sewanee. The Career Services program is in its third year and brings alumni and parent volunteers to campus to assist students in their discovery and exploration of options after graduation. The 40 volunteers and the students worked together in panel discussions, mentoring, practice interviews, and workshops. A “business dining etiquette” luncheon was also part of the program. In his session on job search skills, Montague “Cosmo” Boyd, C’74, gave the students what he called “a fool-proof system for finding a job,” encouraging them to expand their networks by making three calls a day in search of opportunities. Boyd is senior vice president of investments for Smith Barney. apartment rental, creating a household Volunteers conducting practice in- John Clark, C’84, and Derek Bing, budget and living within it, and the cumu- terviews provided information about C’93, talked about everyday life including lative effects of everyday decisions. One of handling tough or illegal questions, their worksheets showed how the decision wearing appropriate interview attire, pre- to forgo a few lattes each week could make interview research skills and persuasive a million dollar difference in savings over communication. the course of a career. Clark is a real estate In addition to job search advice, vol- developer who owns Tennessee Develop- unteers shared tips on time management, ment Resources, and Bing, a financial life and work balance, professional dress, planner, is managing partner of The Bing accountability and professionalism. Team, and a board member of Consoli- dated Planning, Inc. Above: Anne Goodwyn, C’08, looks over charts Mentors were paired with students based detailing wealth-building potential over the course on a common career interest, and students of a career. Top: Donald Allen and Lenore’ Cooke, took advantage of the opportunity to meet both C’07, listen to a presentation on budgeting. with a mentor to ask questions, gain more Left: John Clark, C’84, presented the workshop “It information or expand on prior topics. costs HOW much?” with Derek Bing, C’93.

Spring 2007 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • onO nthe the Mountain mountain “The gratitude of students and their desire to learn inspires me most. I try to get to know my students well. The wonderfully close-knit atmosphere of Sewanee encourages this.” J a m e s D av id h e i s e r , p r o f e s s o r o f G e r m a n

Faculty Accolades: Davidheiser and Wright John L. Seigenthaler awarded honorary degree

November was awards month for Sewanee John L. Seigenthaler received an honor- professors, as James C. Davidheiser, ary degree at the University of the South’s professor of German, and Rebecca Abts Opening Convocation on Tuesday, January Wright, professor of Old Testament at the 23, in Sewanee, Tenn. School of Theology, joined George Poe (see John L. Seigenthaler was born in Nash- page 7) in receiving major recognition for ville in 1927. Throughout his career as a their teaching and service. journalist, statesman, and First Amend- Davidheiser was honored with the 2006 ment scholar he has remained a faithful son Jacqueline Elliott Award for Outstanding of Tennessee. Service in Higher Education from the Seigenthaler joined the staff of The Ten- Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching nessean in 1949. He left the paper to serve as Association (TFLTA). It recognizes out- administrative assistant to Attorney General standing contributions in and outside of the Robert F. Kennedy in the 1960s and acted classroom and the promotion of “language as the Justice Department’s chief negotiator study and intercultural understanding.” with the governor of Alabama during the Freedom Rides. While attempting to Wright received the 2006 Fortress Press defend Freedom Riders in Montgomery, he was attacked by members of the Ku Award for Graduate and Seminary Teaching Klux Klan. at the American Academy of Religion/So- He returned to journalism with a renewed dedication to the value of free speech ciety of Biblical Literature Conference. in a democratic society. He was editor, publisher, and chief executive of The Ten- This award recognizes two professors in the nessean, and founding editorial director of USA TODAY. United States — a teacher of undergraduates In 1991, Seigenthaler established the First Amendment Center based at Van- and a teacher of graduates or seminarians derbilt University in Nashville and in Arlington, Virginia. The center promotes — for their innovative instruction methods, freedom of expression in American society through education and discussion of their approaches to subject areas, or their ways to protect free speech. communication with today’s students in He hosts a weekly book-review program titled “A Word on Words” on National biblical studies, religious studies, theology, Public Television and is chairman emeritus of The Tennessean. He chairs the annual ethics, or ministry. Profile in Courage Award selection committee, co-chairs the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for the RFK Memorial, and is a member of the Constitution Project Robert “Red” Lancaster dies on Liberty and Security. Mr. Seigenthaler’s many honors include the recently named John Seigenthaler Robert S. Lancaster, historic leader of the Center at Vanderbilt University (which houses the offices of the Freedom Forum, University of the South, died February 21 the First Amendment Center, and the Diversity Institute), and Vanderbilt’s after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Seigenthaler Scholars program of four-year scholarship awards. A chair in First He was a deeply-valued mentor and friend Amendment Studies has been endowed in Seigenthaler’s name at Middle Ten- for many Sewanee students, alumni, and nessee State University. colleagues for more than seventy-five years. —Sarah Metzgar Steffner, C’94 (See In Memoriam, page 58.)

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Selected Media Quotes about sewanee

“Some of [Robert] Benson’s sentences are so good that you want to linger over them like the last piece of pie at Sunday dinner.” — “Benson renders wisdom of experience in lyrical prose,” a review of Blood and Memory by Robert Benson, professor of English, in the Baton Sewanee Parents Break Rouge Advocate, December 3, 2006 Phonathon Record “‘The butterflies that you feel going into a game in Sewanee are every bit as authentic as For almost a decade, members of the butterflies you feel in front of 100,000 people at Neyland Stadium and every bit as authentic Sewanee Parents’ Council have participated in an annual phonathon during Lessons as the butterflies that you feel at Lambeau Field playing for the NFC Championship,’ said and Carols Weekend. Oakland Raiders assistant coach John Shoop, who played quarterback at Sewanee from The tradition continued when 16 1987–1990.” — “Falling for football: Sewanee’s atmosphere on autumn afternoons all about members of the council met on Saturday, love of game,” The Tennessean, November 7, 2006 December 2, to call parents of current Sewanee students. Besides collecting email addresses and changes of address, council “Students describe a campus culture that jealously guards its traditions. Members of the members talked to parents about the im- Sewanee community call their mountaintop campus ‘the Domain,’ and dare not sully its portance of the Sewanee Annual Fund in misty air with cell phones or risk incurring the ritual cry from a passer-by: ‘Save Sewanee!’” providing unrestricted operating support — “Private schools heed call of South: Sewanee is luring Baltimore graduates,” Baltimore for the University. The group set out to exceed last year’s Sun, October 9, 2006 record-setting total of just over $40,000. Led by Parents’ Council Sewanee Annual Fund Committee Chair, Jerry de St. Paer, the group attempted 768 calls and gathered Dean of the College, Rita Kipp, steps down gifts and pledges totaling $75,975. Every year, parents, alumni and friends In February, 2007, Rita Kipp, dean of the close collaboration with science faculty contribute over $3 million to support college, announced her resignation effec- members to develop the complex construc- the operating budget of the University. tive in August, 2007. Kipp has served as tion plans for the Spencer Hall addition to Without the Sewanee Annual Fund, the dean for three years. Woods Laboratories. University would need an additional $60 “She has made many valuable con- “She has worked harder than any of us million in endowment to generate the tributions to the University,” says Vice could have asked,” he says, “and her passion income the Fund provides. Chancellor Joel Cunningham, “including for building and strengthening the college’s The Sewanee Parents’ Council is a group leading major new curricular initiatives and academic programs has been extraordinary. of approximately 30 parents appointed by in the highly demanding planning and as- We will miss her gifts, and we wish her all the vice chancellor to serve as an advisory sessment that led to the reaffirmation of the the best.” group for the college. University’s accreditation by the Southern Cunningham, and Provost Linda The chairs of the 2006-07 Parents’ Association of Colleges and Schools a few Lankewicz, invited faculty and staff to share Council are Linda and Rick Bostwick of weeks ago. suggestions and insights on the process for Waco, Texas. “Through the Consortium for Fac- finding a new dean of the college. Over ulty Diversity she brought to Sewanee the next few weeks they will hold meetings talented new faculty who have enriched the to hear from as many people as possible University.” about recommendations for filling the Cunningham also praised Kipp for her position.

Spring 2007 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • 11 Enduring visions Treasures from the University’s collections E illustrate a tradition of cultural philanthropy

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Enduring visions

uch of my own understanding of the Opposite: Orphrey Band, Southern art of connoisseurship owes a great debt to the time Netherlandish possibly English, ca. M spent as a graduate student at the Ashmolean Mu- 1480-1520. Detail with Three Angels seum of The University of Oxford. The University of the and Emblems of the Passion. Em- South is also fortunate to possess a rich and diverse broidery with metallic thread collection of fine art and historical objects which and silk on linen ground. Gift span thousands of years and relate to multiple of the Rt. Rev. G. P. Mellick academic disciplines. Like the Ashmolean Museum Belshaw, C’51. 2006.1.1. of Oxford the great majority of works found in the Above: Ewer, Tiffany and collections at Sewanee were donated by alumni and donors Company of New York. Designed by who hoped such works of art would aid in the practical application Edward Chandler Moore, ca. 1860- of knowledge. From ancient coins to the works of 20th-century 1870. Silver. Acquired through the expressionist Georges Rouault, the University of the South has generosity of the Rt. Rev. Furman C. benefited enormously from visionary alumni and donors who saw Stough (C’51, T’55, H’71; Bishop the potential for works of art as instruments of education. of Alabama, 1971-88; Chancellor In 1908 Dr. Horatio Spencer of St. Louis, Missouri gave the 1979-85). 2003.1.1.

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John James Audubon, French/American (1785-1851). Male Winter Hawk with Bullfrog ca. 1829. Engraved by Robert Havell Jr., hand-colored by Robert Havell Sr. Presented by the Congregation of St. Paul’s Church, Henderson, Kentucky. 1933.1.1. Conservation of this work was made possible through the generosity of Dr. and Mrs. James A. Key, Trustee, 1999. University a work of art which stands apart sented the University of the South with its as one of our great treasures: The Nuremberg only original work by John James Audubon Bible published by Anton Koberger in 1483. (1785-1851). Winter Hawk was designed by Extant in two volumes containing the Old Audubon and engraved by Robert Havell Jr. Fig. 1. Pentecost. Amiens illuminators, ca. and New Testaments the bible retains its with hand coloring by Robert Havell Sr. in 1430-40. Sewanee (Tenn.), University of original pigskin binding with rich blind- 1829. The original double-elephant folio the South, University Acquisition 1998.1.1. stamping. The two volumes contain no less print is taken from Audubon’s masterpiece, (Formerly Wigan [Lancs.], Upholland Col- than 109 hand-colored woodblock prints Birds of America. In 1999 conservation of lege Library, Ms. 99, fol. 97v.) by an anonymous German artist of the late the print was made possible through the fifteenth century known as the “Master of generosity of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas A. the Cologne Bibles.” Little is known of Key during Dr. Key’s tenure as University Spencer’s motivation for the gift other than trustee. In the spring and early summer of his great devotion to the Episcopal faith 2006,Winter Hawk served as the centerpiece and his desire that the bible be placed at a of an exhibition of ornithological prints university in the southern United States. and watercolors in which the Audubon Professor Reinhard Zachau of the Ger- hung alongside seven original watercolors man department utilizes the bible each by Edward von Siebold Dingle (1893- semester when he and his students examine 1975), better known as the Audubon of early German printmaking techniques. Dr. the American South. These seven works Gregory Clark of the department of art and by Dingle constitute only a portion of the art history also focuses on The Nuremberg Bible series entitled, The Woodpecker of North America, in his Art and Devotion course. which was given to the University in 1966 The bible is exhibited periodically but by Mr. Buist Lucas Hanahan. These works for reasons of conservation the two vol- reside in the University’s Print-Study umes are in secure storage during much Room in the Jessie Ball duPont Library of the year. However The Nuremberg Bible can along with the core of the University’s be shown to anyone under supervision by permanent collection of fine art. As works simply requesting to view the work at the on paper can only be placed on exhibition University Archives. for short periods of time the Print-Study Fig. 2. Pentecost. Amiens illuminators, ca. In 1933 the congregation of St. Paul’s Room allows students, faculty, staff, and 1440. Arras, Bibliothèque Municipale, Ms. Church of Henderson, Kentucky, pre- members of the community the opportu- 540, fol. 111r. (Photo: Gregory T. Clark.)

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n 1998 Sewanee acquired a late me- Spirit; the Sewanee Pentecost introduced manuscript went on the block twice again in dieval painting of the Pentecost on a and illustrated that text in Upholland 99. the 1990s at rival London house Sotheby’s parchment leaf about seven inches high From the fourteenth to the early sixteenth (29 November 1990, lot 137; 5 December I 1994, lot 94). At some point between 1994 and five inches wide (Fig. 1). The subject century the Book of Hours was the most comes from Acts 2:1-4, where we read that frequently transcribed and printed text in and 1998 the codex was dismembered so the resurrected Jesus’ twelve apostles were western Europe. that its 197 leaves could be sold individually. gathered in a room on the Feast of Weeks, Both the calendar and the Hours of the With the Upholland 99 Pentecost, Sewanee the fiftieth day after Passover, also known by Virgin in Upholland 99 were written for acquired both a quintessential example of an its Greek name of Pentecost. At that time an unidentified patron in the diocese of important school of late medieval French a great noise from the sky filled the house Amiens. The capital of the northeastern book painting and a teaching tool that will and tongues of flame danced over the heads French province of Picardy, late medieval benefit faculty and students on the Moun- of the apostles. Filled with the Holy Spirit, Amiens briefly became an important center tain for generations to come. the apostles began to speak in the foreign for the making of illustrated manuscripts languages that would enable them to preach after Paris fell to king Henry V of England Gregory T. Clark is professor of art history at to the Gentiles. in 1420. From the early thirteenth century Sewanee. His course offerings include Northern The Sewanee Pentecost is set in a Paris had been the center of the French Renaissance Art (ArtH 326) and Art and Devo- chapel-like interior fenestrated by silver- book trade. With the English occupation tion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Northern leaf windows with pen-and-ink leadings. cutting the city off from much of its clien- Europe (ArtH 322). His most recent book is The On the central vertical axis the dove of the tele, however, many of Paris’ manuscript Spitz Master: A Parisian Book of Hours Holy Spirit hovers with spread wings above illuminators were forced to migrate to out- (Getty Museum Studies on Art, 2003). the seated Virgin Mary. Although not de- lying provinces. One of the most distinctive scribed in Acts as a witness to the miracle, and productive local schools established by the Madonna is usually at the center of late those emigrants was in Amiens. medieval representations of the Pentecost. Even if its parent codex were not known, Here she crosses her hands before her in the Sewanee Pentecost could still be iden- wonder; the apostles sit to her either side. tified on the basis of style as an Amiens Golden rays of divine inspiration emanate product of the second quarter of the from the dove toward the figures’ heads. fifteenth century. Its composition, for Surrounding the Pentecost is a border of example, invites comparison with that of winding vines in pen and ink punctuated the same subject in an Amiens Book of by tiny leaves in burnished gold. Three Hours of about 1440 in Arras (Fig. 2). interlocking sprigs of brightly colored and Similar vines and acanthus sprigs also highly stylized acanthus enliven the vines; engird the Sewanee and Arras Pentecosts. the other side of the leaf is blank. The Sewanee Virgin’s rounder head and all The leaf was originally folio 97 in a of the Sewanee figures’ greener flesh tones, manuscript numbered 99 in England’s on the other hand, are closer to those in Upholland College Library in Wigan, Lan- Amiens codices like the Hours of Hugues cashire. Upholland 99 was a Book of Hours, de Cayeu, bishop of Arras from 1426 until or Horae, a late medieval Christian devo- his death in 1439 (Fig. 3). tional text that was read at the eight separate The Sewanee Pentecost was still folio prayer services, or Hours, of the day. The 97 in manuscript 99 when I examined text takes its name from the eight Hours ad- the book at Upholland College Library in Fig. 3. Pentecost. Amiens illuminators, ca. dressed to the Virgin that comprise a Book 1981 and again in 1983. Four years later the 1430. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Ms. of Hours’ irreducible core. Most Horae school auctioned the codex at Christie’s of McClean 77, fol. 128r. (Photo: Fitzwilliam also contain Hours addressed to the Holy London (2 December 1987, lot 33). The Museum.)

Spring 2007 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • 15 St. John the Evangelist from the Book of Revelations. nity to study the collections in a secure and while experiencing the digital and musical Attributed to The Master of the Cologne Bibles. One stable environment. creation inspired by Rouault’s Miserere Series of 109 hand-colored woodbock prints on woven Other important works on paper found in a student/faculty collaboration. paper from The Nuremberg Bible. Published in the University’s permanent collection In addition to works on paper the Uni- by Anton Koberger ca. 1483. Gift of Dr. Horatio include the Miserere Series by Georges Rouault versity possesses an important collection of Spencer 1908.1.1. (1871-1958) given to Sewanee by Mr. and English and American silver ranging from Mrs. S. M. McAshan through St. John the the 16th to the 20th century. One of the Divine Episcopal Church of Houston, Texas finest examples is a magnificent silver ewer in 1971. In November of 2006, the major- made by the firm of Tiffany and Company ity of the Miserere prints were exhibited in of New York dating from 1860 to 1870. the University Art Gallery in conjunction The ewer was acquired through the gen- with a multimedia event organized by Dr. erosity of The Rt. Rev. Furman Charles James Carlson of the music department. Stough, C’51, T’55, and Chancellor of the Studio art majors David Hellams and Kevin University of the South from 1979-1985, McCoy, both C’07, utilized digital repro- in 2003. The ewer exemplifies neoclassi- ductions of 34 of the Miserere prints to cal design and is surprisingly restrained in create a digital video, which was presented decoration as if to respond against the overt alongside an original score composed and opulence of the Victorian era. It is this sense performed by Dr. Carlson with accompa- of understatement that gives the work such niment by Katherine Lehman (also of the strength. Other important examples in the music department) in the University Art University’s collection include a remarkable Gallery. This rare opportunity allowed au- Elizabethan communion cup and paten dience members to view original works of art cover crafted by an unknown London sil-

16 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • Spring 2007 From ancient coins to the works of 20th-century expressionist Georges Rouault, the University of the South has benefited enormously from visionary alumni and donors who saw the potential for works of art as instruments of education.

versmith in 1577. Later examples include a the University. Undergraduate students ma- lections to further satisfy curricular needs. jewel-encrusted chalice by the famed British joring in art history often find it difficult to To this end Dr. Elizabeth Mansfield, chair Arts and Crafts silversmith Omar Ramsden acquire much-needed curatorial experience of the department of art and art history, (1873-1939). through internships. Realizing such a need formed the teaching collection committee by As recently as 2006, the Rt. Rev. G. existed, Dr. Vicki Sells, Interim Associate appointing three members of the faculty, two P. Mellick Belshaw, C’51, presented the Provost for Information Technology and students and myself to acquire works of art permanent collection with one of its most University Librarian, agreed to a proposal which would best serve the academic needs remarkable gifts in the form of a unique colin which one student from the department of those studying art history and studio art. lection of liturgical textiles dating from the of art and art history would be chosen to Through the generosity of the Armstrong 15th and 16th centuries. The orphrey bands assist in the care and maintenance of the Fund, the teaching collection has already en- and chasubles remained in Belshaw’s family University’s permanent collection of fine joyed great success in its first acquisition of until 2006 when he graciously presented art. Through unanimous recommenda- Félicien Rops’ (1833-1898), Le Sire de Lumey. the collection to the University. Orphrey tions from faculty, Hank Johnson, C’07, Separate impressions of the first, third, and bands, once mounted on chasubles and was chosen as the first curatorial intern. fifth state of the print were acquired to illus- worn by clergy, were first and foremost a Johnson has provided invaluable assistance trate the evolutionary process of creating an functional object used in the ritual of the in the installation of various exhibitions etching. Additional financial support from mass. These objects exemplify the most from the permanent collection as well as the Patrick Family Foundation will ensure costly artistic medium of Renaissance Eu- the ongoing project of cataloging the col- further acquisitions. rope, for textiles were an important means lections. Such internships provide students An exhibition, co-curated by Johnson of visually demonstrating the high status with the experience required to pursue and myself, opened on March 9, 2007 and authority of the monarchy, aristocracy, advanced graduate degrees in art history in the University Archives and includes a and clergy. with an eye toward a career in curatorial number of the most important works in This unparalleled gift was celebrated in practice. the collections including many of the works the exhibition, Enduring Visions: Iconography of the Freshman Reed Tomlinson, C’10, discussed above. It is hoped that such an Christian Church 1450-1710, held in the spring provides technical expertise for the digital exhibition brings greater awareness to these of 2006. The exhibition placed the Belshaw database of the collection. Digital images rich and diverse collections, which continue textiles alongside contemporaneous illu- will also allow students, faculty, staff and to serve the curricular goals of the Univer- minated manuscripts from the University’s members of the community the oppor- sity. No greater case can be found than that collection and old master drawings of the tunity to view hundreds of works of art. of Dr. Horiatio Spencer’s gift of The Nuremberg 17th and 18th centuries illustrating the pro- A great example of technology assisting Bible. There is no doubt that the donor would gression of biblical narrative and Christian in the conservation of fine art is the large take great pride in the realization that The iconography. Scholars benefited greatly number of digital images created of the 109 Nuremberg Bible remains relevant and highly from such works of art being on display hand-colored woodblock prints found in valued nearly a century later. during the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium The Nuremberg Bible. Once such images are where relevant intellectual discourses were placed on the digital database, individuals John Daniel Tilford, Information Technology Fel- being staged. can enjoy the beauty of these priceless works low, currently serves as the steward of the University’s Owing to the success of the Enduring Vi- of art without unnecessary handling of the Permanent Collection of fine art. Having completed a sions exhibition, it was decided the care and 500-year-old original fragile bible. master’s degree from Balliol College at The University of maintenance of the permanent collection The department of art and art history Oxford in 2002 his primary research interests focus on could further serve the curricular needs of realized there was a need to expand the col- Flemish and Dutch art of the seventeenth century.

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n October 14, 2006, the Nobel OFoundation announced that it had awarded its Peace Prize to the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and to its founder, Muhammad Yunus, H’98. The reverberations of this announcement echoed from that densely populated, underdeveloped South Asian nation all the way to Sewanee, where Yunus had come to receive an honorary degree in 1998 and where many students and alumni have not only learned about the Grameen Bank’s methods of poverty alleviation but have also traveled to Bangladesh to observe it firsthand. For the last four years, the Summer in South Asia Program led by Yasmeen Mohiuddin, the Ralph Owen Distinguished Professor of Economics, has taken more than 30 alumni and friends of Sewanee to Bangladesh; in addition, seven Sewanee students have each spent several months at the Grameen Bank through internships funded by Sewanee programs such as the Tonya Public Affairs Intern- ship Fund. Sallie Hart, C’06, the most recent Sewanee students and Professor Yasmeen Mohiuddin meet Sewanee alumna to have spent time as a with Grameen borrowers in Bangladesh in 2006. Tonya intern at the Grameen Bank, was there in the fall of 2006. On the day of the

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As Nobel Peace Prize winners Muhammad Yunus, H’98, and the Grameen Bank offer life-changing opportunities for Bangladeshis, Sewanee students and alumni marvel and are changed, as well

Peace Prize announcement, she wrote this Yunus returned to his native Bangladesh. firsthand report to her friends and fam- The Grameen concept started when Yunus ily: “The whole country is in celebration, made a loan of about $27 to some poor particularly [Yunus’] home village near village women he met, who were trying to Chittagong. I am enjoying watching the make a living by crafting bamboo stools. excitement on Bangla-TV. I could not be These women had to borrow money to buy more proud, for this award is well deserved the bamboo and were being charged usuri- and great news for Bangladesh. According ous rates of interest on loans that amounted to the papers, he plans to use the money on to pennies. Yunus, seeing that they were the Grameen Danone Foods project and trapped in poverty through no fault of their Yasmeen Mohiuddin, the Ralph Owen Distinguished to start the eye hospital program, both of own, told them to take his money and pay Professor of Economics (left) at Sewanee and which I am studying. I am lucky to be here at him back whenever they could. Muhammad Yunus, H’98, founder of the Grameen such an important time for Grameen!” Over the course of the next year, they Bank. Later, she added, “The newspaper ads did pay him back. Out of this impromptu for weeks printed pictures of Yunus and moment of generosity and empathy has the loans go to women to support whatever words of appreciation and pride in being grown an organization that follows an activity they are inspired to pursue to make Bangladeshi. They compared the excite- unprecedented model in the world of money for their families. The borrowers ment to independence in 1971!” banking: It offers very small loans and it collaborate in groups of five; one member Yet, long before the Nobel Prize made requires no collateral. According to the must repay her loan before the next may Muhammad Yunus into a world celebrity, bank, the repayment rate is 99 percent receive hers. the Grameen Bank has been offering life- — an achievement equally unprecedented Mohiuddin, a specialist in economic changing opportunities to poor residents in conventional banking. development who has consulted on proj- of rural Bangladesh. In equal measure, the “Grameen” means “rural” in Bengali, ects for the World Bank and the United Sewanee alumni and friends who have been and the Grameen system functions by vir- Nations, heard about Grameen and its exposed to this remarkable work have been tue of the close-knit, communal nature “microcredit” model of banking with a changed as well. of Bangladeshi village culture. The bank social purpose. She first visited the Gra- After earning a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt works close to the ground, with more than meen Bank in 1989. “If you weren’t already University in 1971 and teaching at Middle 100,000 loan centers spread over more a convert to Yunus’ work, you became one Tennessee State University for a few years, than 70,000 villages. Ninety-six percent of after visiting,” Mohiuddin says. “The Gra-

Spring 2007 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • 19 “Yasmeen and little bit of watering to spark their desire to Harold Goldberg succeed.” [professor of history] That’s fundamentally what Grameen is took a group of stu- all about, says Hart. “The philosophy of dents to China while Grameen is that charity is unproductive; I was there, and they the poor must work to improve the quality visited me. Yasmeen of their lives so that it means something to told me, ‘Go to Ban- them. Grameen does not change their life; gladesh! I’ll write you a it just provides the opportunity for them to letter of introduction change their own future.” to Dr. Yunus.’” As it turned out, Caldwell Not only is Grameen changing the future stayed in Bangladesh for a year, observing of women, men, and children in Bangla- the workings of the Grameen Bank and desh; in some cases, seeing Grameen at also doing research on Islamist groups that work is changing the future for Sewanee were attacking foreign non-governmental alumni, many more of whom have come organizations. into contact with it through the Summer Caldwell visited with many Grameen in South Asia program. Since 2003, this borrowers during her year in Bangladesh. program — which includes a course in mi- “Hearing the women’s stories was one of crofinance at Sewanee before the trip — has Top: A woman borrower in her family’s shop. Her the most inspiring experiences of my life,” made it possible for students, and also a few husband drives a taxi and their son is in school. After says Caldwell, who now works as a business alumni and friends, to travel to Bangladesh school each day the boy helps manage the shop and its consultant for cross-cultural and global and study the bank’s lending model. (See newest service, a cell phone — which customers may training. the sidebar on page 21 for information use for a fee. The cell phone was obtained with a loan In particular, Caldwell remembers a about this year’s trip.) According to Yunus, from the Grameen Bank. Above: a borrower signs woman from southern Bangladesh who had Sewanee is the only school in the U.S. to for her loan with a Grameen Bank worker. Most become a successful businesswoman and a offer students a course in microfinance borrowers are illiterate but must learn to write their leader of her village. “She was very regal, she coupled with a travel program to observe names in order to borrow funds from the bank. had a lot of self-confidence,” says Caldwell. work at the Grameen Bank firsthand. Yet when this woman was first married, she Skip Bivens, C’99, was working as assis- meen Bank is the most successful poverty lived under severe oppression and abuse. tant coordinator of the University’s outreach alleviation program in the world. In the She lacked any ability to bring money into program when Yasmeen asked him to help case of Grameen, theory followed practice her impoverished family. Despite the oppo- coordinate her Summer in South Asia pro- rather than the other way round. First, the sition of her family and the local mullah, she gram as well. He traveled to Bangladesh for program on the ground was successful, and went to a Grameen meeting. She obtained the program’s first three trips, in 2003–05. then econometric models were developed a loan and bought a used sewing machine. An English and political science major, to explain the success.” Going door to door, she solicited sewing Bivens claims he “had avoided econ courses Mohiuddin wanted to give her students jobs. Her life turned around as her business like the plague while an undergraduate at Sewanee an opportunity to see the bank in grew, and first her family and then her com- at Sewanee.” Because of his experiences action. She first helped several students who munity learned to respect her abilities. with the Summer in South Asia program, had a particular interest in microlending go “Her head was held high. She was say- however, he started taking economics to Bangladesh for internships or research ing, ‘I never knew I could do this. I’m courses while continuing his outreach job trips at the Grameen Bank. a really successful businessperson now.’ at Sewanee. Then he left Sewanee to enroll Christi Caldwell, C’99, was one of those. There’s tons of stories like that,” Caldwell in the master’s program in international After graduating from Sewanee with a major says. “Through Grameen, I was turned development at the London School of Eco- in third world studies (now international on to the empowerment of people, how nomics, and this fall he plans to enroll in and global studies), Caldwell had gone people could help themselves. Grameen the school’s Ph.D. program. “I will always on to graduate school at Johns Hopkins doesn’t give money, but empowers people be grateful to Sewanee and Dr. Mohiuddin University and was studying microfinance and their ideas. I was struck with people’s for allowing me to transform my interests in in China. own capabilities and how that just needs a poverty issues at the local level into what is

20 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • Spring 2007 shaping up to be a lifelong pursuit of analyz- ing and addressing the causes of poverty on Your Chance to Visit the Grameen Bank a global scale,” Bivens says. Nora Frances Stone McRae, C’77, was lumni are invited to join also a Sewanee English major who says that A Sewanee students and Yas- her interest in economics has been stimu- meen Mohiuddin, professor of lated by the trip she took to South Asia with economics, for the 2007 Summer Professor Mohiuddin in 2005. McRae’s in South Asia program. This trip to family, including her husband, Vaughan, Bangladesh and India is tentatively and two of her children, Douglas and Selby, scheduled for late July through participated in the trip as well. “My children mid-August (two to three weeks). have told me that this was a life-changing experience for them,” Nora Frances McRae The program will include: says, “as it was for Vaughan and me.” • In Bangladesh, visits in the vil- For McRae, the predominant feeling left lages and homes of Grameen in her by her visits with Grameen borrow- Bank borrowers. ers was hope. “Through a very disciplined • An extended meeting with program, Dr. Yunus, along with others in the 2006 Peace Prize No- his country, has found a way to give the very bel laureate, Muhammad poorest a way out of poverty by using their Yunus, founder of the Gra- own skills and ingenuity,” she says. “One meen Bank. of my strongest impressions of my time in • Visits to the credit programs Bangladesh was not how different I was from and informal schools of the the people there, but how much we had in Bangladesh Rural Advancement common. … One of my favorite questions Committee (BRAC), the largest to ask was, ‘What do you want for your chil- microfinance institution in the world. dren?’ The answers could just as easily have • Briefings at the United Nations’ World Food Programme (UNWFP) country been mine: health, security, and education offices in Bangladesh and India. for my children. The women glowed with • Field visits to U.N. projects, focusing on economic and social development pride as they described the improvements in remote parts of Bangladesh and India. they had been able to make for their families in those areas.” The program begins with an optional orientation McRae continues, “I know life is still meeting in Sewanee in the last week of July, 6–7 tough for these women. All I can say is that days in India, 6–7 days in Bangladesh, and 3–4 we were reminded in a very powerful way days of travel. In India, we will visit Delhi, Agra, how much value self-respect, work, and and Jaipur (“the Pink City”). In Agra and Delhi, the ability to care for your family can add we will see the Red Fort, the mosque Jama Masjid, to your life. The saris the women wore were Jantar Mantar, Lotus Temple, and the Taj Mahal. incredibly bright and colorful. As we began The Jaipur portion will include several palaces and temples, elephant rides, to realize that they owned so few pieces and exposure to the authentic local culture. of clothing, I marveled at the exuberant The cost is $5,000, covering all expenses including room and board, impressions the saris made. I could not local transport, tickets to museums, historic and tourist sites, visa fees, and help but contrast that with our extravagant international travel. Some scholarships are available. quantities of clothing at home. For more information, contact Professor Mohiuddin at 931.598.1462. “Poor as they were, especially by our standards, they were wealthy in expression. It seems to me to be an image for the Photographs: above right, Courtni Wisenbaker, C’07, with a BRAC borrower in 2006; unbounded expectations the successful above left, Vaughan MacRae carries a sack of wheat while assisting at the United Nations’ borrowers now have.” World Food Programme (UNWFP) Wheat Distribution Center in 2005.

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22 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • Spring 2007 Rebuilding the library of Cuttington University in Liberia

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the aftermath of the American Civil War, England’s world-famous Cambridge and Oxford universities donated books to a fledgling academic enterprise located on Tennessee’s Cumberland Plateau. Having lost all its assets during the war, the Ten- nessee school was at that time surviving on not much more than the faith and vision Inof a few Episcopal bishops and laymen who were determined to fulfill their dream of establishing a great Southern university.

Now, nearly 150 years later, the University of the South is “paying The college continued to operate as best it could in exile. In forward” that gift, the nucleus of its current 600,000-volume the meantime, its campus in Suacoco suffered from abuse, fight- library. In the summer of 2005, the University’s duPont Library ing, and looting. In 1997, the college was able to return to the loaded nearly 1,400 cubic feet of books into a container bound heavily damaged campus, but after a few years reignited fighting for a war-ravaged sister university in Liberia, West Africa. More forced everyone to flee again. What they had rebuilt was destroyed shipments have followed it over the past year and a half. a second time. For most of the last 15 years, civil war engulfed Liberia. Institu- During these war years, the library building remained relatively tions all over the country closed their doors, or at least suspended untouched. As Elwood Dunn, Cuttington alumnus and profes- operations, and waited it out wherever they could find safety. sor of political science at Sewanee, points out, the looters weren’t Cuttington University College, founded in 1889 with a dona- interested in papers. tion from Robert Cutting, treasurer of the Episcopal Church, was But a library left untouched and un-airconditioned in a tropi- among those institutions. Located in Suacoco, 120 miles north cal climate is not much better than a library destroyed. The books of the Liberian capital of Monrovia, the college campus became a degenerated into brittle tatters. battleground — rebel leader Charles Taylor even used it as a train- In the summer of 2003, a United Nations-negotiated cease- ing camp for his army. Cuttington’s administrators, faculty, and fire started Liberia on the road toward peace and stability, and students fled for safety to Monrovia, or even farther away. Cuttington’s administrators and supporters started preparing to Opposite: Cuttington University’s original campus in Suacoco before the civil war drove faculty and students off the campus to safer locations.

Spring 2007 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • 23 resume classes at Suacoco. The Friends of Cuttington, based in Hampton, Va., and the college’s worldwide alumni network also started working to get the college back on its feet again. Dunn, a former Liberian government official who fled the country after the 1980 coup d’état, took on the task of locating book donations to replenish the Cuttington library. Much like Sewanee, Cuttington combines a liberal arts college and an Episcopal school of theology. Classes are taught in English. As of April 2005, more than 1,100 students were enrolled and attending classes at the Suacoco campus. A sampling of the books and bound In the fall of 2004, Dunn approached Betsy Grant, head of periodicals Cuttington received from Sewanee: acquisitions and cataloging at Sewanee’s duPont Library, and Todd Kelley, then-University librarian, and explained Cuttington’s need. Their response was immediate and positive. The American Journal of International Law, 1966–2000 Throughout the academic year, Grant set aside books for Cut- Analytical Chemistry, 1942–1998 tington. Sources included reference books of which duPont Library Economic Journal, 1913–1996 had received new or electronic editions, and donated books that Encyclopedia Britannica (1998) were already in duPont Library’s collections. In addition, duPont Library had bound volumes of about 170 periodical titles that it no The Interpreter’s Bible (12 volumes) longer needed because those materials are now accessible online. Peterson’s Overview of Graduate and Professional Another set of periodicals related to African studies and litera- Programs (2002) ture came from Berea College, which had brought the volumes to Philosophical Review, 1928–1998 an Appalachian Colleges Association librarians’ meeting for a book Publication of the Modern Language Association, exchange. “We didn’t have any books to exchange because all our materials were going to Cuttington,” Grant said. “But we asked if 1889–1990 we could have them for Cuttington, and they were just delighted The Story of Civilization (11 volumes) that we were going to send them to Africa.” What Color Is Your Parachute? (2003) The shipment also included quite a few books, especially in Writers’ Market (2000) philosophy and political science, that Sewanee professors cleaned World Politics, 1948–1995 out of their offices in preparation for moving out of St. Luke’s Hall, which was renovated for use as a residence hall. Another local donor was the Society for the Preservation of Christian Knowledge, better known as the SPCK, which has offices at Sewanee’s School of Theology and a warehouse in Cowan, Tennessee. Its donation of 4,000 theological books, audiovisual equipment, and clerical vestments — which came from clergy and churches all over the United States — will help Cuttington’s School of Theology. In assembling this collection of books for Cuttington, Grant worked closely with the Rev. David Copley, director of Friends of Cuttington and assistant rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Hampton. Originally, they had planned for Sewanee to send its do-

24 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • Spring 2007 nations to Hampton for shipment to a port; but the volume of materials Sewanee gathered made it more efficient for Copley to send the donations he assembled (including books, computers, scientific instruments, and even a piano) to Sewanee. The Friends of Cuttington also raised the money needed to ship the container, with additional funds from duPont Library and University Provost Linda Lankewicz. June 22, 2005, was packing day at the Physical Plant warehouse. A semi truck arrived with a 2,200-foot container, to be loaded directly onto a ship bound for Af- rica. The duPont Library’s contributions (nearly 1,400 cubic feet, or 42,000 pounds, of books) was valued at $100,000 or more. Copley and Debbie Williams, a member of St. John’s, drove an 18- foot truck loaded with 10,000 pounds from Hampton to Sewanee. The SPCK transported its donations from Cowan. And, at the last minute, Sewanee’s information technology division donated 15 computers to the cause. As it turned out, there was too much weight for one 2,200-foot container. They loaded 46,000 pounds of materials, but had to leave behind about 270 boxes of books. However, Copley included them in the next shipment, which was sent last summer. “It’s been an adventure,” said Williams, an insurance agent who volunteered to help with the shipment. “But I figure we must be doing the right thing because of how things are falling into place.” Dunn traveled to Liberia and visited Cuttington University later in the summer of 2005. His visit included meeting the librarian Opposite: Elwood Dunn, professor of political science and a graduate of Cut- and touring the library. “For the situation, the library building tington, checks over the bill of lading with Betsy Grant, head of acquisiions is in good shape,” Dunn said. It has a roof, windows, and doors, and cataloging at duPont Library. but it’s too small and lighting is dim. Dunn is part of a committee that is working on raising money to build an annex to the original Top: a crew from Physical Plant Services works on loading the container library building. (above) for shipping. The college is now operating full steam ahead, graduating several hundred students each year. About 80 percent of students live on campus in dorms. The theology school is operating on a small scale, as the demand for theological education is not very high. Liberia has elected its first national government since the end of the war in October 2005. “When that has been settled, places like Cuttington can look forward to normal development,” Dunn said. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who was elected the first female president of Liberia and installed in January 2006, was the commencement speaker at Cuttington in 2006. For more information about Cuttington University, visit http:// www.cuttington.org.

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B y S helley Akers, C’07 have been flying my entire life,” said years old, and her first solo flight was on her I Bethany Davis, C’07, a senior physics sixteenth birthday. She dedicated the fol- major, Spanish minor, and aircraft pilot lowing two years to obtaining several other from Cartersville, Georgia, who was recent- licenses by passing written tests and oral ly accepted to Georgia Tech’s Technology exams as well as logging a specified number Leadership Program, a master’s program of hours in the air. Davis now has over 1,200 in aerospace engineering and business flight hours logged and is a certified flight administration. Her uncle, her father, and instructor in single- and multi-engine her grandfather are all pilots, so going up airplanes. She is also licensed to fly Cessna for a spin is second nature to Davis who lives Citation jets, Learjets, and sea planes. and breathes airplanes. Davis’s first flight into Sewanee was her She started logging flight time at five junior year of high school. She flew to the Mountain to attend preview day. “I hate driving,” said Davis. “If it is more than twenty minutes, I want to fly.” Close to central campus, the Sewanee airport is a convenient resource for students, parents, and alums. Many people fly into Sewanee for events such as family weekend, graduation, and Lessons and Carols. Davis’s parents occasionally fly into Sewanee on Sunday afternoons to have lunch with their daughter. The two-hour drive from their home in Georgia is reduced to a short thirty minutes.

Aviator Bill Kershner, H’01, and pilot Bethany Davis, C’07, stand in front of Kershner’s Cessna 152 Aerobat which is to join the collection at the National Air and Space Museum.

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Aviator’s legacy: inspiration and knowledge for young pilots Aviation author and aerobatic instructor William K. Kershner, H’01, died on 8 January at his home in Sewanee, Tennessee. Kershner and his family settled in Sewanee in 1964 following his career as a naval aviator where he flew Corsairs over the Pacific and as a supervisor of flight testing at Piper Aircraft Company. Kershner wrote five flight-training manuals that have sold millions of copies world-wide. The Sewanee-Franklin County Airport is home to his Ace Aerobatic School, founded in 1969, where he trained Bethany Davis in aerobatics, along with approximately 1,000 other pilots from around the world. In 1992, Kershner was named the General Aviation National Flight Instructor of the Year. Flight instructor Catherine Cavagnaro, professor of mathematics and computer science, is maintaining his legacy by assuming the teaching duties at Ace Aerobatic School.

On a sunny December day, Davis took airport, she doesn’t always go up in Betty. me to the airport to show me her pride The airport is a place where she can hang and joy — Betty. “This is my baby doll, my out with friends that share her passion for darling,” she said a little out of breath as she planes. They have Christmas parties, birth- pulled Betty from the hanger. day celebrations, and Labor Day cookouts. Betty is a Piper “Super Cub” that Davis There doesn’t have to be a celebration for bought the summer before her junior year Davis to make a trip to the airport. She often at Sewanee, and it is the first plane that she goes there to sit and chat with her fellow has ever owned. “I definitely became a mom pilots. “Everyone who loves airplanes can when I bought it,” Davis confessed. “Like talk about them till the cows come home,” when people have kids, and they make them Davis said. call to check-in and tell them to look both “What is nice about the Sewanee airport ways. I became so much more protective. is there are three other female pilots with She’s definitely like a child to me.” many others learning,” said Davis. Female Betty, however, is not just any old plane. pilots make up less than six percent of the She is unique because she made out of fabric total number of pilots in the country. “[At instead of aluminum like all the other planes the Sewanee airport] there is a good group at the Sewanee airport. “Betty is what you of gals to hang out with and talk about our would learn to fly if you lived in the fifties,” sexy planes,” Davis said with a grin. explained Davis. “She is for Sunday after- As Davis’s undergraduate years come to noons. She doesn’t go high. She doesn’t go an end, she fondly reflects on the time spent fast. She’s just a lot of fun.” on the Mountain and in the air. “When I For some people flying is stressful, but look back on my Sewanee experience, the for Davis it is therapy. “I just take off and airport is a huge part of it,” Davis said. float around. I can come out here any time. “Flying at Sewanee is not about becoming a I don’t have to make an appointment or professional pilot like at other universities. tell anyone how long I will be gone,” she It’s not stressful. It’s the way flying used to explained. be in the old days. It’s a passion — a romance It isn’t all about flying for Davis — it’s with the sky.” about community. When Davis goes to the

Spring 2007 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • 27 historyHistory New Book Spotlights Sewanee Ladies

B y J i l l C a r p e n t e r allie Milhado killed rattlesnakes, but was afraid of thunderstorms. Sister Hughetta Ssurvived two yellow fever epidemics in Memphis. Polly Brooks narrowly escaped Pancho Villa. Their stories are just three from Sewanee Ladies, a book recently published by the Sewanee Trust for Historic Preservation (STHP). Sewanee Ladies is a compilation of brief biographical sketches of about 100 women associated with Sewanee’s history. The manuscript was begun in the 1980s under the aegis of a Sewanee chapter of the Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities (APTA), through the efforts of the late Jeannette Avent, Loulie Hunt Cocke, and the late Elizabeth N. and Arthur Ben Chitty. Sewanee Ladies was revived and brought to completion by STHP, an organization founded in 2003 to contribute to awareness of Sewanee’s history. Many people contributed sketches. More recently, many others have helped to locate photographs. Em Turner Chitty wrote the preface. About a third of the women in Sewanee Ladies were born before the Civil War, and another half were born between the War and the turn of the century. They are presented in order of birth date, beginning with Eliza Otey, who was born in 1801. Their stories, taken together, provide a panorama of changing culture and styles. They also present a picture of the early history of the University of the South. Sewanee Ladies includes the wives of the founders, mothers of students, and many wives, daughters, or female relatives of University and Military Academy administrators and professors. Here also are matrons of the early boarding- houses and their successors, the matrons of the residence halls, and women who cared for students in other ways — by making soup; sewing uniforms or costumes or mattress covers; teaching manners; treating homesickness. Among the Sewanee Ladies are writers, musicians, artists, dancers, missionaries, and phi- lanthropists. They were affected by social movements, changing fortunes, and wars. They entertained visiting dignitaries, organized clubs, tidied up the cemetery, and put together a Cook Book to earn money to endow lighting for the War Memorial Cross. Many founded and/or taught in schools for children or girls. Three have libraries named for them. Sewanee Ladies is a charming collage of the character, interests, passions, quirks, and contributions of women of Sewanee’s history. The book is hardcover and includes 166 illustrations — many from the University of the South archives. Jill Carpenter edited the book; Latham Davis of Proctor’s Hall Press designed it. The cover is an early photograph of Caroline Kirby-Smith Crolly (1862-1941) by Spencer Judd. The book is $29.95 and may be ordered from the Sewanee Trust for Historic Preserva- tion, P.O. Box 21, Sewanee, TN 37375.

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Some excerpts ever know how many boys were taken into professor in the School of Theology at the from Sewanee Ladies Magnolia for half pay, or none at all, and University of the South, and they came to given their chance for an education. She Sewanee. George had two children, and he Maria Louisa Porcher nursed them, darned their socks, and and Margaret eventually had six more. In (1828-1910) comforted them.” In addition, she gave 1925 they built Bairnwick — now Bairnwick a home to the children of her mother’s Women’s Center — with the assistance of Maria Louisa Porcher was second marriage and to “kind Uncle Bob Margaret’s parents. born to Martha DuBose DuBose and his family, and Dr. de Margaret quickly established Bairnwick and Philip Porcher near Ovies who came there for his bride.” School, to educate professors’ and resi- Charleston, probably The Reverend William Porcher Du- dents’ children. Bairnwick was enlarged at Porcher’s Bluff, Bose called her “half bishop, half in 1939 to accommodate the growth of the her father’s home. general.” She had five namesakes. school, which then had about 30 students. To escape malaria She died in Sewanee on November Margaret’s programs involved a lot of activ- and yellow fever, the 4, 1907. Magnolia was used as ity. Schoolchildren performed an annual many Porcher rela- the University’s dining hall until it Christmas mystery play (written by Marga- tives and DuBoses and burned in 1960. ret’s mother) in St. Luke’s Chapel. In the Gaillards had founded [From an account by Ria Cortes Kirby Smith. spring, they performed plays adapted by a summer colony in the Photo courtesy of Ann Whitener of Charleston, who Margaret, out of doors. They went to the higher lands of Pineville, also owns Maria’s “The Madonna of the Chair.”] Fiery Gizzard for a May Day swim. Margaret South Carolina. was an environmentalist before the word Maria was a gifted painter, as evidenced came into common use; she picked up by the copy she made of Rubens’ “Ma- Margaret JefferysH obart Myers trash wherever she found it, and took the donna of the Chair,” dated 1850. When (1889-1970) children in a pony cart to Green’s View, the the Civil War broke out, the Porcher and Cross, and Hat Rock as soon as they were other families found refuge in Winnsboro Margaret Jefferys Hobart My- able to hold on to their seats. with relatives. During the 1860s, Maria ers was born in New York Bairnwick School closed in 1948. cared for the three children of her deceased City to Marie Elizabeth Margaret lived forty-nine years in sister, Martha, whose husband, Dr. Edwin Jefferys and Henry Lee Sewanee, and for decades the My- Steele, was one of the first Confederate ca- Hobart. She graduated ers home was a center for social sualties. Their son, Edwin Carroll Steele, from Bryn Mawr Col- and intellectual life. On Wednes- later became the first Gownsman in the lege, and before her days about forty people came to first graduating class of the University of marriage she edited tea at Bairnwick. A chapter of the South in 1874. The Spirit of Missions, an the Junior Red Cross that she In 1872, at the behest of her cousin, the official publication of organized met at Bairnwick, as Reverend William Porcher DuBose, Maria the Episcopal Church. did the English Speaking Union. took eight children (and three more soon She marched with suf- Every year, Bairnwick was the scene afterward), all relatives orphaned by the fragettes in New York, and of a large New Year’s Eve party at which Civil War, to the Domain of the University years later was active in the Sewanee residents danced the Virginia of the South. With her own money she civil rights movement in Sewanee. She Reel and sang “Auld Lang Syne,” George built Magnolia Hall, large enough to house brought “a touch of the reforming spirit” pronounced prayers for good fortune, and feed students. One of the children to the Mountain, and established many and Margaret read Tennyson’s “Ring Out, was Louise Finley, who later became the traditions. Wild Bells.” University librarian. In the 1932 Purple In 1920, she married George Boggan [Adapted from an account by Lucas Myers; photo Sewanee, Louise wrote of Magnolia Hall and Myers, a widower and dean of the cathedral courtesy Lucas Myers] the cousin who raised her: “No one will in Havana. In 1922 George was appointed

Spring 2007 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • 29 facultyfaculty “…we’re turning Of Course Humanities 101: The Ancient World the tables today, and you’re going Early in the Advent 2006 semester, the last goal of the course was entitled Respon- students in Humanities 101 were met with sible Intellectual Discussion, or RID, and to watch them a surprise when they gathered in the Gailor it hooked into a campuswide “Eloquence Hall Auditorium. Initiative” sponsored by Sewanee’s Center Usually, when the separate sections of for Teaching. discuss Antigone.” the class are not meeting for seminar-style Kristine Bruss, a Center for Teaching discussions, one of the six faculty members Fellow in rhetoric, introduced the activities you’re going to watch them discuss Anti- who teach Humanities 101 — i.e., Mishoe of that unusual day in Gailor Auditorium gone.” Not only are the students to watch Brennecke, Art & Art History; Jon Bruss, by quoting from an ancient rhetoric text, and listen, but they are to critically evalu- Donald Huber and Chris McDonough, Against the Sophists by Isocrates. ate the discussion, using the same rubric Classics; Gayle McKeen, Political Science; “‘The student must learn the forms of with which the students themselves are and James Peters, Philosophy — stands speeches and practice their uses.’ Has this being evaluated in their seminars: Exhib- before the group alone to give a lecture on occurred? I’d say check. You have learned ited Mastery of Material; Helpfulness and a topic like “The Iliad: Entertainment Lit- forms of discussion interaction and you Quality of Ideas; Helpfulness and Quality erature?” or “The Liberty of the Ancients: have been practicing its uses. of Agreements/Disagreements; and Nut- The Political Development of Athens and “‘The teacher must go through these as- shell Summary Assessment. Sparta.” pects as precisely as possible so that nothing McDonough, as the assigned prompter, On this particular day, however, all the teachable is left out.’ Again, I think you’re starts the discussion by asking his colleagues berobed professors sat in a semi-circle on covering this in your classes, and you’re about a passage in which a sentry describes the stage — as if they were going to be talking going to the rhetoric workshops so these seeing Antigone pour out libations on to each other. principles are being reinforced. You get a Polynices. “This is my question,” said Mc- And that is, in fact, what they did. check for that one. Donough after reading the passage. “Is this This year, Humanities 101 focused not “‘But as for the rest, he must offer Antigone’s second trip to the corpse; and if only on exploring the worlds of ancient himself as a model.’ I would say, no check it is her second trip, why does she come back Greece, Israel, and Rome through an in- thus far. Have you seen these people in a a second time? If it’s not her second trip, terdisciplinary study of visual and literary discussion?” if this is in fact her first trip to the corpse, texts; and not only on writing on these The students murmur. “Not really,” who buried the body the first time?” topics in response papers, formal essays, says one. After a pause, in which everyone looks and exams; but also on speaking about these “They’ve watched you and have observed thoughtful and then laughs, he repeated, topics and discussing them in class with your responsible intellectual discussion. “What do you think?” insight, consideration, and integrity. This Well, we’re turning the tables today, and For the next half an hour, the professors speculate on this question, bringing up supporting passages, questioning the Humanities 101 Reading List purpose behind the question, and weighing the heart of the play’s meaning: individual Aristophanes. Clouds. versus state, Antigone versus Creon. Coffin, Judith, et. al.Western Civilizations. After half an hour, the students have a Homer. The Essential Homer. chance to have their say about what they ob- Paul, Richard, and Elder, Linda. The Miniature Guide to Critical Thinking: Concepts and Tools. served on stage. And they were impressed. Plato. Five Dialogues. Republic. “They could always feed off each others’ Sophocles. The Three Theban Plays. ideas and refer to specific examples and Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. it just kept going, like an explosion, pow! Strunk, William, and White, E.B. The Elements of Style. pow! pow!” said one student. “That made May, H.G. and Metzger, B.M., eds., The New Oxford Annotated Bible, with Apocrypha. it pretty cool. It made it interesting.” Thucydides. On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War. Take note, talk show hosts: Responsible Virgil. The Aeneid. intellectual discussion is interesting and cool! — Laura Barlament

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• • My Sewanee Calling From Sewanee to Malawi, divining “community”

By David Leflar, C’02

t is unique how the University of the circuit in Italy after two years in Prague ISouth is most commonly referred and perhaps pursue graduate opportu- to by the name of the town in which nities there, ideally someday returning it is located: Sewanee. I know of no to Sewanee to assume the position of my other institution of its kind, excluding former Italian professor Leslie Richard- universities with perfunctory city names son. And then, just as my life seemed so in their titles, which gives such entitle- clear and focused, and neglecting that ment to the community that supports destiny is most unanticipated at one’s it. Every student, alumnus, and friend slightest distraction, I met a girl. of Sewanee knows the reasoning behind She was intent on starting a com- this: no one is merely a student of the munity development project in Malawi, University of the South: we are each sub-Saharan Africa, and while exhaust- members of the Sewanee community. ing myself getting her to be my girlfriend, And in a wonderful sense of paradox, I decided to join her project. I have been membership in the Sewanee community in Juma Village in Mbame, outside Blan- encourages, even demands, individual- tyre, Malawi, helping open and operate ism. It is a community in which each a pre-school, a sustainable agriculture member is forced to fill a niche, grand program, and an H.I.V./AIDS awareness or small, necessary to the time and place. This list is perhaps not so inspiring or program for twelve neighboring villages As a member of the Sewanee commu- impressive, but it was the raison d’être since March of 2006. My role here is nity, my niche was filled in various ways: of my Sewanee experience: my Sewanee as partnership development officer, managing the Quidnunc Café; playing niche. which involves solidifying the necessary music with various campus groups and Upon my graduation in 2002 I assistance/community relationships that local musicians; volunteering with the abandoned this particular niche in the will allow our role as sponsors to be un- freshman Pre-Orientation; serving Sewanee community in order to estab- necessary. The ideal is that in October as Proctor for a summer school term; lish and fulfill a broader utility in the of 2008, three years after the arrival learning Italian; carrying various titles world. I focused on playing music in of the project coordinators, we will be in the Sigma Nu fraternity; adopting a the southeastern USA with my Sewanee able to walk away and Umodzi-Mbame hound from the local animal shelter; band Mojo Hand until, in the summer Community Based Organization will familiarizing myself with every trail, of 2004, my path diverted before me continue to function in our absence. lookout, and watershed on the Domain; as I swapped music for teaching, mov- If this is to be so, sustainability is that learning, teaching, and sharing life ing to Prague, the Czech Republic. My ideal and individual members of the with the other community members. intention was to relocate to the teaching continued on p a g e 3 3

Spring 2007 • The Sewanee Call • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • 31 Helping Those Who Help Themselves An estate gift from Douglas Hawkins, C’54, will build Sewanee’s diversity

“Sooner or later, the man who wins is the of Business and then began to special- man who thinks he can.” ize in rebuilding companies, working successfully with manufacturing plants or Douglas Hawkins Jr., C’54, throughout the country. Passionate those words were not just an about aviation, he was a multi-engine Finspirational saying, but a way rated pilot; one of his prized posses- of life. For Hawkins, life’s sions was a 1974 Cessna Golden Eagle challenge was how to make 421. He was the founder of the Denver- something or someone bet- based Hawkins Foundation, which made ter. It was what he loved to grants to many charitable organizations. do. But that was not his only He was also chairman of Century In- love. Though a student on dustries, a home manufacturing firm in the Mountain for just two se- Denver, which he started in 1969. mesters, he also maintained His best friend, Jim Allen, says that a deep and abiding belief in Hawkins thrived on the challenge of Sewanee throughout his life. bringing out the highest potential in Hawkins passed from this the people whose lives he touched and earth at the end of 2005, the organizations he worked with. In but his legacy will continue fact, says Allen, he created the basis of to challenge a new group of his wealth by turning around a mobile Sewanee students each year home manufacturer that was losing a to strive to be their very best. half million dollars a year. Soon, with A $3 million gift from his Hawkins’ help, that company was mak- estate has allowed Sewanee ing a half million a year, and Hawkins to endow a new program in used those earnings to establish his own partnership with the Posse manufactured housing company. Foundation, a national or- “Doug always wanted to make a differ- ganization that will bring ence in the world, especially by helping the college 10 outstanding people who are trying to help themselves. students each year from He was committed to education and diverse backgrounds in the continued learning throughout his life,” Washington, D.C., area. The said Barbara Stine, Hawkins’ longtime first group of Hawkins Posse partner and one of the trustees of his Scholars will be selected this estate. “He valued honesty, integrity, year and will arrive on cam- persistence, high standards, and creative pus as freshmen in the fall. problem solving. The chance to support Born in Dallas, Texas, the partnership of Sewanee and the Doug Hawkins, C’54, and Barbara Stine Hawkins attended the University of the Posse Foundation seems like the perfect South during the 1950–51 academic year. opportunity to help others who share He transferred to Southern Methodist similar values and goals, while ensuring University in order to participate in an Doug’s intentions are being fully met. It ROTC program, which led to his service is a privilege for me to help accomplish as an officer in theU .S. Navy aboard the some of those goals.” destroyer USS Rogers during the Korean Now in its second decade, the Posse War. He attended the Harvard School Foundation identifies, recruits, and

32 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • The Sewanee Call • Spring 2007 The Sewanee Call reaches a milestone

trains student leaders from public high he Sewanee Call $180 million 180 schools to form multicultural teams Tcapital campaign has exceeded 170 called “Posses.” Through an intensive $150 million, a major milestone. 160 eight-month pre-collegiate training The campaign focuses on expand- 150 program, these teams are prepared ing Sewanee’s endowment to support 140 for enrollment at top-tier universi- teaching and learning, financial aid and 130 120 ties nationwide to pursue academic merit scholarships and also new building 110 advancement and to promote cross-cul- projects. It is scheduled to end in June 100 tural communication on campus. The 2008. All gifts to Sewanee’s Annual 90 concept of the “Posse” is beneficial for Fund are included in the campaign. A Millions $ 80 both students and college campuses, week long campus celebration of the 70 and is rooted in the belief that a small, milestone began on March 5. To learn 60 diverse group of promising students, more about the progress of the cam- 50 carefully selected and trained, can serve paign, its objectives or to make a gift to 40 as a catalyst for individual and commu- the campaign, go to . 20 10 Eric Hartman, Sewanee’s dean of students, says he is excited by the pos- As of March 1, The Sewanee Call campaign had reached $150 million. sibilities the Hawkins gift brings to the University. “Last summer, I attended a Posse meeting in New York with deans and provosts from some of the finest colleges in the country. Some of them have been Posse partners for several years, and as I listened to the stories from other campuses, I left the gathering inspired by the mission and success of the Posse Foundation,” he said. “Our peers in this program report with conviction that their campuses and communities have been significantly enhanced by the contributions of these young men and women. Posse students are savvy and skilled leaders with a thirst The annual employee recognition luncheon on March 5 coincided with the capital campaign milestone of to absorb knowledge and engage in the over $150 million. The celebrations were combined with special decorations and a celebratory menu. opportunities available to them. Our continued from p a g e 3 1 Posse students from Washington, D.C., should strengthen the leadership of our community are each the catalyst. from within), it’s prudent to take this student body, help diversify our com- Umodzi-Mbame offers an entirely fatalist perspective: in the same way that munity, and enhance student learning new vision of ‘community’ as potential. I offer my service to develop this com- both inside and outside the classroom.” It also offers an expansive perspective of munity to the extent that they demand Sewanee’s Hawkins Posse Program my own niche: in Malawi, in my ‘career,’ it, Sewanee was everything it had to be, will be a lasting legacy to a man who be- and in my life. A necessity of my niche and everything I needed it to be, at the lieved that one should never give up. here in Mbame being to offer passive most critical point in the development — Joe Romano guidance to the community (for the sake of the niche my life fills in the ongoing of ownership, all ideas must originate story of the world.

Spring 2007 • The Sewanee Call • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • 33 Beecken Pre-Business Scholarship Program Combines Liberal Arts with Business Education

n the summer of 2006, when been successful in recent years in I David Beecken, C’68, estab- developing summer programs, lished a new fellowship program such as the School of Letters, for Sewanee students explor- that draw on the expertise of both ing careers in business, he was Sewanee faculty and high-quality supporting a process he knows faculty from other institutions. intimately. When Beecken trans- A Sewanee business preparation ferred from Wake Forest in the program would use the same fall of 1966, he was set to prepare model. for a career in business and drawn On their return to campus, to Sewanee because of its aca- participating students will make demic reputation. In his second a public presentation on their semester, he was inducted into experiences. These will provide the Order of the Gownsmen, an overview of curricula and and by the end of the first year expectations that can prepare was honored with the Atlee Heber Beecken Scholars who attend in Hoff Scholarship for Attainment following years. in Economics. Qualifying applicants must be In 1968, despite his stated participants in the pre-business interested in business, the new program, have a 3.5 GPA in both graduate was poised to enter a their major and pre-business doctoral program in economics courses, and be nominated by the at the University of California, department head of their major, Berkeley, on the strength of a Na- chosen. What resulted was a gift to create their major advisor, and the pre- tional Defense Education Scholarship. the Beecken Pre-Business Scholarship business program advisor. Instead, Beecken chose a joint degree Program, a distinctive program that The Beecken Pre-Business Scholar- program with the London School builds partnerships with highly respect- ship is one program of a new Center for of Economics and the University of ed graduate schools of business. Applied Economics at Sewanee. Work- Chicago’s Graduate School of Business. The program is inspired by a Bridge ing with the faculty, the Center builds He earned a M.Sc. and an M.B.A. from Program for liberal arts students that effective co-curricular programs for the two institutions in 1970. takes place each summer at the Amos Sewanee students that prepare them for After a stint in the U.S. Navy, Beecken Tuck School of Dartmouth College. success in global commerce. landed back in Chicago at Harris Bank, This “boot camp” experience immerses and his business career was launched. students in accounting and finance and David Beecken, C’68, is a founding partner of By 1978 he was elected an international orients them to what their lives will be Beecken Petty O’Keefe & Company, one of the banking officer at Harris, responsible like in business. Beecken’s gift will help nation’s largest private equity firms focused exclu- for the Middle East and Africa. pay tuition for students to attend Tuck sively on the healthcare industry. Before founding A generous contributor to Sewanee or similar programs at a select list of the company, Beecken was a managing director in and co-chair of The Sewanee Call business schools. investment banking specializing in healthcare at First campaign, Beecken had already made a The gift also includes funding for a Chicago (now J. P. Morgan) and prior to that was a campaign gift by 2006, but he saw the planning grant to help Sewanee consider banker at Smith Barney, Inc. He has spent his entire need to do more, especially for students developing its own business enrich- business career in Chicago. he knew were following a path he had ment program. The University has —Tom Sanders

For ongoing information about The Sewanee Call campaign, visit http://ur.sewanee.edu/sewaneecall To speak with a member of the campaign team, call 800.367.1179.

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Cave cricket studies have global reach

Over the past two years, biology professor Henrietta Croom has guided a small group of students in a research project that connects the University of the South and Yale University; caves of the southern Cumberland Plateau, southern Europe, and the southernmost state in the U.S. (i.e., Hawaii); the Ice Ages and the present age of global warming. What’s the common denominator? An uncommon breed of … cricket. While Aesop may have painted the cricket as a careless and slothful creature when it came to wintertime preparations, these Professor Henrietta Croom with (left to right) Lauren Martin, Dane Cooper, and Mary Harrison. proverbial insects have actually cleverly adapted themselves throughout millions of of caves and their fauna in the Cumberland species developed and diverged. years as climates cooled and warmed. Plateau around Sewanee presented me with In the meantime, Croom has been Some survived the climatic extremes by research problems that are tractable for my conducting this type of research in Hawaii’s retreating into caves and adapting to life in students and important to our understand- Bishop Museum on the lava-tube crickets the dark, growing longer antennae and legs ing of how invertebrates form new species of Maui and the Big Island. Comparing and losing eye size and pigmentation. Two adapted to life in the dark.” these two families is of high interest, be- related “tribes” of cave crickets live in the While earlier researchers had collected cause the circumstances of their adaptation southern Cumberland Plateau (Hadenoecini) and described the Appalachian cave cricket to cave life were quite different. and in the Mediterranean (Dolichopodini). species in the late 1970s, their information The Sewanee group plans to finish its They came from a common ancestor that was still fairly “low resolution” compared to data collection during the spring semester. existed before North America and North- the detail that can be gained with modern Croom will spend January through August ern Europe split apart, about 50 million DNA analysis techniques. in Hawaii; in the meantime, Kirk Zigler — a years ago. Here is where the Yale University part new member of Sewanee’s biology faculty, Half a world away from Tennessee, and starts to come into the picture. That and a fellow invertebrate zoology expert many millions of years later, another fam- university was home base for one of the re- — will advise the students as they complete ily of crickets with similar characteristics searchers who first described Sewanee-area their work, write it up, and submit it for evolved in Hawaii, as they adapted to life cave crickets. Adalgisa Caccone, an Italian publication. in caves, or lava tubes, formed by volcanic researcher who had studied Mediterranean Whatever happens, the students agree activity. cave crickets, continued the work at Yale. that they have learned valuable techniques To understand how, why, and when these Through Croom’s contact with her, the and processes to launch them into their species evolved, in convergent and diver- collection of cricket specimens came back to careers. Harrison, a biology major, plans to gent ways, is the goal of Croom’s research the Cumberland Plateau, where they have continue with molecular genetics research group. Not only are these questions inter- served Croom’s group for study samples. in the biomedical field in graduate school, esting and valuable in and of themselves, This year, seniors Mary Harrison, while Martin, a biology major, and Coo- but they also offer a perfect opportunity for Lauren Martin, and Dane Cooper have per, a French studies major, plan to enter college students to learn the basic research continued the project, using both the old medical school. Mallory Dorand Salter techniques of molecular biology. specimens from Yale and new ones that and Lauren King, both C’06, started the “Students are able to conduct research they collected from caves near Sewanee. By project with Croom and are now in gradu- as undergraduates for no more than two extracting and sequencing DNA from the ate school for molecular biology, Salter at years, and the techniques in biomedical crickets, they have tested and refined the Rice University and King at the University research are difficult to master in such a “evolutionary trees” created by the original of Mississippi Medical Center. short time,” Croom says. “The abundance Yale researchers, demonstrating how the — Laura Barlament

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The Best Medicine

Zebedee Masereka, T’83, ou can tell a lot about a person by the adversities so protean in nature it is helpful Yway he laughs. Some laughter rises up at times to think of them as a single problem: shares laughter, compassion, from deep, authentic places, bellowing forth poverty — poverty primarily of health and and help with a suffering people with joy and warmth to fill empty spaces education, as well as financial poverty. In — physical or spiritual. this rural place, people subsist by “digging” The Rt. Rev. Zebedee Masereka, T’83, on farms. The average annual income is less B y D a n i e l W. f O r t, C ’ 8 0 likes to laugh. His laughter starts like a than $300 a year. chugging diesel, gaining strength until it What is Masereka, retired bishop of the culminates in a high-pitched chortle, leav- Diocese of South Ruwenzori, finding so ing him with his hands flapping at his sides. amusing as to conjure up belly laughs? Lots He shares these wonderful laughs with all of things, like when he was asked if the truck- different kinds of people about all kinds of load of uniformed soldiers barreling down things. the potholed road were, in fact, Christian There is a lot not to laugh about where soldiers; like when a goat, given as an of- Zebedee Masereka comes from. Kasese, fering and tied to the communion rail in measured minutes from the equator, lies church one Sunday, bleated “nnnnaaahhh” at the base of the southern slopes of the in perfect timing to the priest’s question, “Do Ruwenzori Mountains, which mark the west- you accept Jesus into your heart?” (That goat ern border of Uganda with the Democratic knew he would soon be stew!). Republic of the Congo. The hot, dusty town What is Bishop Masereka not laughing looks east toward the plains across the western about? Mostly about things that were done Rift Valley, with a view of Lake George. that ought not to have been done, but espe- It is a deceptively inviting landscape. cially about those things that have not been Tourists come for the game parks and done that ought to have been done. Just as the mountain hiking. There are bananas and Ruwenzoris border the Congo, the bishop mangoes, elephants, hippopotami, storks, borders anger when he talks of the needs of eagles, crocodiles, lions, hyenas, gorillas and his community — the senseless loss of life chimpanzees. But there are also troubles, to H.I.V./AIDS and malaria; the households sorrows, needs, sicknesses, and many other headed by AIDS orphans; the piles of burning

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Opposite: The Rt. Rev. Zebedee Masereka, T’83, on the ground in Uganda gives credence to filled with patients and their attendant family (right),and The Rev. Peter Muhindo, former medical the enormity of the problem. Even a casual members, who sleep on floors in overflowing observer can identify infected individuals by assistant at the BMCF — he is now attending medical wards. One wonders what would happen if their hollow faces with prominent eyes in school in Uganda with full support from the BMCF as there were a cholera or typhoid outbreak, war, part of the capacity building program in continuing sunken sockets. The disease is so common or other large-scale trauma. It is an extended higher education. it has a nickname, “Slim.” Another chilling fragile moment for Uganda, for Africa. It is example of the subtle reminders of the H.I.V. no laughing matter. garbage choking the town’s air. He threatens plague are piles of rocks behind houses of In spite of this seemingly desperate situa- to run for mayor. orphans — their parents’ graves. tion, there is a great deal of laughter and fun, Bishop Masereka grew up in western Having started providing for the edu- and genuine kindness extended at every turn. Uganda, in the mountains. He loves moun- cational needs of AIDS orphans, the bishop There are natural beauties galore. There are tains, he moves mountains. He is moved by knew there was much, much more to be gentle moments, evenings when mothers them, too, as he was when he attended semi- done. In July 2005, with great fanfare and have washed their babies, when the men are nary at the University of the South from 1980 representation from two supporting dioceses speaking in soft tones punctuated by drawn- to 1983. He came to Sewanee an ordained (Pennsylvania and Massachusetts), the BMCF out “Eeeh hey, eemmm, eeh.” There is priest in the Anglican Church of Uganda Medical Centre was inaugurated to offer laughter when a small child looks at her image to complete a Master of Divinity. On the treatment to all who come, but especially for slowly appearing on a Polaroid print, when Mountain, he focused his studies on church those suffering fromH .I.V./AIDS and malaria. the little boy burned so badly by a pot of por- leadership. As part of his practical training, Located in the center of Kasese town, the ridge finally smiles, when the cool rolls down he and his family spent a summer living with clinic accommodates nearly 20 inpatients from the high mountains and the equatorial a Native American family on a South Dakota daily, and assists an additional 250 H.I.V./ night sky winks at the beauty below. reservation. Both Sewanee and the reserva- AIDS patients with counseling, education, Bishop Zebedee Masereka has his work cut tion left deep impressions on the bishop for home-based care services, and medication. out for him and for all he can recruit — in- their emphasis on the family as a focal point Beyond the AIDS problem, nearly 80 cluding the international physicians whom of society and Christian living. He returned percent of the patients who come to the BMCF he and Stella welcome into their home. The to Uganda to serve as a parish priest for a year Medical Centre are treated for malaria. It downtrodden and despised need his leonine before being elected the first bishop of the is nothing short of rampant. People of all power, respect, counsel, and prayers. They South Ruwenzori Diocese in 1984. ages are affected. These signs and symptoms need his laughter. They are dying for it. In the mid 1990s, Masereka attended a — headache, nausea, vomiting, general meeting of nearly 60 H.I.V.-positive people weakness or dizziness — are so familiar to Daniel W. Fort, C’80, a pediatric hematolo- in a parish outside of Kasese. He recalls the Ugandans that most adults fully expect to gist–oncologist trained in clinical tropical medicine depression that overcame him after seeing have several bouts of malaria a year. They and U.S.-based director of the BMCF, spent January so many people simply waiting for death. know about the relationship between the 2006 at the BMCF Medical Centre (www.bmcf. He was determined to improve the situation parasite, its vector the Anopheles mosquito, org). In March of this year, he returned to assist for people suffering from physical illness and its human host. They know a bed net is in setting priorities and strategic objectives for the compounded by stigmatization and discrimi- good protection from mosquitoes. They all foundation. He writes: “I am pleased to report two nation. He and his wife, Stella, established know some friend or relative who has died additional medical teams, both from the diocese of the Bishop Masereka Christian Foundation from malaria. Oddly, Ugandans still chuckle Pennsylvania, have worked in the medical centre for (BMCF) in 2001 to provide school fees for about the problem. Malaria has become so periods of about two weeks each.” orphans. In Kasese District, with a popula- much a part of African culture that the people Initiatives of the BMCF include scholarship assis- tion of nearly half a million, there are an minimize the effect of simple protective mea- tance for orphans, advanced medical education for staff estimated 15,000 to 20,000 orphaned sures that save lives. The Bishop has met with members, community outreach programs for H.I.V.\AIDS children. Many of them suffer fromH .I.V./ local health and political officials to decry the patients, as well as in- and outpatient medical services. AIDS acquired at birth. They are prey to all absurd loss of life from a completely prevent- Bishop Masereka encourages Sewanee students, fac- manner of neglect and abuse. Most grievous, able disease. He has initiated relationships ulty, alumni and friends to contact him directly (contact they have come to be an accepted part of the with officials from the U.S. Centers for Dis- information is listed on http://www.bmcf.org/Contac- damage stemming from the AIDS pandemic. ease Control sent to Uganda to implement tUs.htm) to learn more about efforts underway and in Currently the BMCF assists more than 500 malaria prevention programs. As a fisher of planning stages. Those with medical training interested children, and Masereka is soliciting resources men, he is casting nets — bed nets. in working in the clinic are encouraged to contact Dr. Fort to support another 500. In a place marked by crushing poverty and who will be happy to answer questions and assist with African H.I.V./AIDS statistics are recount- devastating illnesses, the margins for survival plans for teams to go to Uganda. His email address is ed so often they become numbing. Time are extremely thin. The district hospitals are [email protected], telephone: 434.295.7998.

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Robert Black, C’89, named head football coach

Robert Black, C’89, has been named head football coach for Sewanee, according to Mark Webb, Sewanee athletic director. “I’m thrilled Black has decided to return to Sewanee as our head football coach. He has an abiding appreciation of the Sewanee experience and will be an outstanding leader for our football program,” said Webb. Black’s experiences both with football and Sewanee go back a long time. He lettered in varsity football and baseball from 1985-86 through 1988-89 and was named Sewanee’s Athlete of the Year in 1989. After earning his B.A. in English from the University, this Nashville native went on to coach on the Mountain as the Tiger defensive coordinator and head baseball coach from 1990-1996. Black has since served as athletic director, head football coach, and head baseball coach for TMI Episcopal School in San Antonio, Tex. As director of admission at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, his alma mater, he added administrative experience to an already impressive background. Black was also an assistant football coach and an English teacher while at MBA. Black and his wife, Kelley, have a son, Aubrey (6), and a daughter, Jenna (4). Kel- ley is a member of the Sewanee Athletic Hall of Fame as a member of the 1990 women’s tennis team.

Robert Black: To be named the 29th head football coach in Sewanee’s history is a dream come true. I first learned to take a handoff on Sewanee’s practice field when I was probably nine years old from legendary Coach Shirley Majors for whom my father played. I keep a picture from that day on my desk, and the memory of it is clear. I feel like I am going home.

Veteran soccer coach to lead Tigers

Sewanee has tapped veteran soccer coach Before his time at Loyola, Poggi coached David Poggi to lead its men’s soccer pro- The University of Louisiana-Lafayette Ra- gram, according to Mark Webb, Sewanee gin’ Cajuns from 2000 through the 2004 athletic director. “I am pleased that Coach season. Prior to ULL, Poggi was the head Poggi will be Sewanee’s next head men’s men’s coach at Wisconsin-Green Bay, an soccer coach. He has over 20 years experi- NCAA Division I school, and has also been ence coaching at both the NCAA and pro- the head men’s coach at Truman State in fessional levels and will be an outstanding Missouri (1985-1992) and Lane Commu- addition to the University,” said Webb. nity College (1982-1985) in Oregon. Poggi comes to Sewanee from Loyola Poggi also has experience on the profes- University in New Orleans, where he has sional level. He led the Utah Freezz of the served as the head women’s soccer coach WISL from 1999-2000 and the Lafayette since 2005. After the 2005 season was SwampCats of the EISL from 1997-99. Poggi has bachelor’s and master’s de- cancelled because of Hurricane Katrina, He served as an assistant women’s coach at grees from the University of Oregon and is Poggi served as trainer for the Albertson Brondby IF in Copenhagen, Denmark. married to the former Michelle Fontham, Soccer Club of Long Island, one of the Coach Poggi also holds an “A” License from a native of New Orleans and a graduate of top youth soccer programs in the country. the United States Soccer Federation and a the University of Virginia. He has three He returned to New Orleans to lead the National Diploma from the National Soccer children: Brook (25), Adrian (23), and Wolfpack for the 2006 season. Coaches Association of America. Michael (3).

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t was an exciting fall on the Mountain Roll and Huntsville’s Hayley Robb,C’09, I with beautiful fall color and plenty of was the women’s team captain and part of action on the playing fields. Laura Fan- the Academic Honor Roll as well. First joy, C’07, and Gabriela Carvalho, C’08, year standout Mitzi Harrington also was were the Intercollegiate Tennis Association named the SCAC’s Runner of the Week regional champions and Carvalho was the for her performance at the UT-Chatta- singles regional champion. This earns them nooga meet. automatic All-America status and advanced The field hockey team (4-12, 0-8 them to the ITA Small College Champion- SCAC) also had a rebuilding year, with sev- ships, where the doubles team finished sec- eral student athletes studying abroad. Their ond nationally. Carvalho finished second season was filled with honors. Claiborne in the nation for her singles play. Buckingham, C’09, and Marcy Tickner, We look ahead to an exciting time of C’08, were named All-Region. Bucking- transition and new energy, as well as reflect ham, Tickner, and senior defender Jane on the 2006 fall season that has recently Moss also earned All-Conference honors. concluded. A new internal award system was Tickner and four others also earned SCAC also implemented this fall. The “Tiger of Academic Honor Roll. the Week” is an athlete, chosen by a group The women’s soccer team had a very suc- Senior Jean Ann Babin earned All SCAC honors and of athletic department employees, that ex- cessful season under new head coach Dylan was named to the SCAC Academic Honor Roll, as emplifies Sewanee athletics. This includes Harrison, finishing at 8-6-1,4 -4-1 SCAC were five others. outstanding athletic performance and the for the season. Junior Maggie Adams was peted well at both events. The following belief that “athletes are further expected named first team All-SCAC, while three description from the Rhodes Co-ed relays to represent the University and the ideal others earned All-Conference honors as shows some of the team’s success: “Three of civilized behavior” (from the Sewanee well. Seven Tigers were members of the women were perfect on the day, winning all Athletic Philosophy). Academic Honor Roll. four of their relays: senior co-captain Shel- The football team (2-8, 0-8 SCAC) On the soccer pitch, the men’s team ley Akers, junior Grace Schildknecht, and had a tough season, but its players earned struggled with a 3-13-2, 1-8 SCAC record. sophomore Kelly Imboden. On the men’s many honors. Quarterback Wes Satter- With Coach Qasim Sheikh’s resignation, side, junior Kris Harmon and sophomore field, C’07, led the Tigers on and off of the booters look forward to a renewed Matt Meeks were each on four winning the field, earning second team All Southern energy and competition under new coach relays and sophomore Loren Peterson Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) David Poggi in 2007. Junior goalkeeper contributed to three wins.” honors and SCAC Academic Honor Roll Kevin Karpay and Jason Chen, C’07, The men’s and women’s golf teams also for his performance in the classroom. earned All SCAC honors, while six Tigers competed in fall seasons, preparing their Twenty-four other football Tigers earned were named to the SCAC honor roll. athletes for their spring championship All SCAC Honor Roll, while eight players The volleyball team (7-26, 5-13 SCAC), season. First year competitor Cassie Dixon earned All-Conference honors. Three of under the leadership of Coach Joe Dom- was an example of the women’s team’s these were named to the first team. They browski, continues to build and become promise for the future, leading the Tigers were: running back Blake Mears, C’08; more competitive. Senior Jean Ann Babin and placing second at each of the four tour- linebacker Harlin Hickerson, C’07; and earned All SCAC honors and was named to naments the Lady Tigers attended. offensive lineman Bill Frazier, C’07. the SCAC Academic Honor Roll, as were Both the men’s and women’s tennis Mears was also named SCAC Player of the five others. teams competed in fall seasons to prepare week for his performance in the Hampden- Winter sport swimming and diving themselves for their championship spring Sydney win. began their competition in October with seasons. Along with the women’s success, The men’s and women’s cross-country the Rhodes Relays, where they placed first. Charlie Boyd, C’09, led the men as their teams were led by senior captain Seth The men’s and women’s teams hosted the number one player, making it to the quar- Olson who earned All Region honors Sewanee Invitational and competed in the terfinals in the ITA Regionals. and was also SCAC Academic Honor Washington (Mo.) invitational and com- — Pratt Paterson

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Associated Alumni

Dear Alumni,

I recently returned from the annual winter meeting of the officers of the Associated Alumni. Jacksonville Beach was the setting for our meeting and greeting local alumni and friends at a Sewanee Club event at the Epping Forest Yacht Club (the former home of Jesse Ball duPont) was a highlight of the weekend. The alumni officers, a diverse and enthusiastic group, were interested to review the results of the Alumni Survey that was conducted this past January. The objective of the survey was to determine your perceptions regarding your Sewanee experience as both students and alumni and to explore ways for Sewanee to benefit, better communicate with and engage you as alumni. I think you will find some of the survey results interesting.

• 95% of our alumni are satisfied or very satisfied with their experience as a Sewanee student. This is overwhelmingly high, even among small private institutions. • 89% of alumni have a high regard for Sewanee today. • 81% of alumni consider Sewanee important in their lives today. • 76% of alumni believe Sewanee prepares students for lives of integrity. • 52% of alumni were involved as a student, but only 9% are involved as alumni. • 37% of alumni say they would like to be more informed about Sewanee especially on classmates, Sewanee’s future, alumni events and faculty. • 31% of alumni say they feel well informed about Sewanee. • 25% of alumni strongly agree that there is a benefit from staying involved with Sewanee.

The messages were clear. The vast majority of alumni are proud of Sewanee and satisfied with their experiences but the high regard does not necessarily translate into involvement and engagement with Sewanee today. More effective communication can improve the alumni experience and we will work to develop exciting ways to enhance alumni relationships using the survey recommendations. As always, the officers welcome your thoughts and suggestions. We are proud to serve you in these roles and we are hopeful you will contact us using the email addresses listed below. We shall be working to forge stronger bonds between you and the University. We’ll meet as a board again at Alumni Volunteer Weekend, the first weekend in June in Sewanee. We are hopeful all of our alumni volunteers join us on the Mountain for this informative and fun weekend. Don Olmstead, C’81 President, Associated Alumni

Mark your calendar! Associated Alumni Officers Alumni Volunteer Weekend, June 1-2 Don E. Olmstead, C’81, President, [email protected] Andy Anderson, T’94, Vice President for Church Relations, [email protected] Sewanee Golf Classic for Alumni and Susan D. Bear, T’94, Vice President for School of Theology, [email protected] Friends, June 8-9 Joanne E. Boyd, C’77, Vice President for Reunions, [email protected] Vicky Vieth Bratton, C’88, Vice President for Regions, [email protected] Fourth of July /Sesquicentennial Cel- Charles E. Brock, C’87, Vice President for Annual Fund, [email protected] ebration in Sewanee, July 4 James V. Burchfield, C’78, Vice President for Admissions, [email protected] Julie E. Curd, C’92, Vice President for Young Alumni, [email protected] Homecoming and Reunion Weekend, Rondal K. Richardson, C’91, Vice President for Communications, [email protected] November 2-3 Jack W. Steinmeyer, C’71, Vice President for Planned Giving, [email protected] Read Carson Van de Water, C’86, Vice President for Career Services, [email protected]

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Keep in Touch! ReunionYear ReunionYear 1942 November 2–3 1957 November 2–3 In class notes, you will read the news gathered by your class volunteers. Eugene Zeigler received an honorary Patrick Anderson’s new book, The Thanks to them, you will be able to catch up on many old friends. Join the doctoral degree from Francis Marion Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, fun and send your notes to your volunteer or to . also the commencement speaker for Popular Fiction, was published in the 222 candidates for FMU degrees. February by Random House. The book We have been recruiting class communications chairs for this year’s He has practiced law in Florence, examines trends in current American reunion classes and for all classes from 1990 and forward. The commu- S.C., since 1949 and is presently a popular fiction, and even includes a nications chair for your class and his or her contact information is listed member of counsel in the law firm of mention of Sewanee and its impact on with your class notes. Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A. In 2005, Patrick’s intellectual development. he received the Durant Distinguished Norman S. Walsh We will continue also to accept your news, address updates, and photos Service Award from the South Carolina also published a at the following addresses: Bar Foundation. He is the author of book called, three books: Florence, A Renaissance Plantations, [email protected] Spirit; Barnwell Blarney; and Refugees Pineland Villages, and Remnants; along with numer- Pinopolis and Its or ous articles and plays. He received People, issued by the Governor’s Award in 2004 for his the Berkeley Office of Communications and Marketing lifetime achievement as a scholar and County Historical 735 University Avenue historian. Society in Sewanee, TN 37383-1000 December 2006. The publisher describes it as follows: “Dr. Norman If you would like to serve as a class communications chair or to assist the 1950 Walsh presents both a historical chair for your class, you can contact Sewanee magazine at , 931.598.1286, or the postal address listed above. penson Turlington on September 30, the plantations by which they were 2006, in St. Augustine’s Chapel in supported, as well as a personal Deadlines and policies Sewanee, Tenn. Richard E. Simmons glimpse into the families, both black was honored in November 2006 with and white, of these villages and their the Hall W. Thompson Distinguished way of life. Pinopolis [S.C.] is probably ■ Class notes deadlines fall about 10 weeks before the magazine is Member Award at the Monday Morning the only unincorporated, non- published. Quarterback Club in Birmingham, Ala. commercial pineland village remaining ■ This issue contains news received by January 22. The deadline for the The organization has raised over $15 in this country. The historical becomes next issue, summer 2007, is May 1, 2007. million for children’s charities. the personal with Walsh as he reflects ■ Sewanee magazine’s policy is to publish news after the fact. Please let upon his childhood years spent us know about weddings, births, and degrees received after they have growing up in Pinopolis. By combining happened. 1954 the research capabilities of Cecy The Episcopal High School in Alexan- Guerry with his own skills as Alumni photograph policies dria, Va., recently honored Jim Seidule photographer and writer, Walsh has by establishing The Jim Seidule managed to capture the feel of family ■ We accept photos of Sewanee groups at weddings and other special Teacher Incentive Award. The award is and community that made Pinopolis events. With the photo, send the names and class years of all alumni presented annually to a member of unique.” For more information, visit pictured; birth date, parents’ names, and class years with photos of the teaching faculty. He retired after . children; dates and locations of events pictured. 51 years of teaching and resides in ■ Digital and print photos must be clear and of good quality; color is Gulfport, Miss. preferred. Prints should be on glossy paper with no surface texture. 1961 ■ Digital photos must be jpegs of at least 250 pixels per inch. Low Ernest “Ernie” M. Cheek was hon- resolution photos converted to higher resolutions are not acceptable. 1956 ored for his service to the University ■ Please change the file name of your digital photo to the following Jim Bradner and his wife, Jan, are the and to his class. The class of 1961 format: “Year_Name.jpg” — i.e. “02_Smith.jpg” proud grandparents of Jack Noburo placed a stone bench, with an inscrip- ■ Prints will be returned at your request. Write your name and address Bradner, who was born August 7, tion honoring Ernie, near the football on the back of the photo. 2006, in Bremerton, Wash. Jack is the field, where he played as part of the son of Chris and Debbie Bradner. 1958 undefeated team.

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North Carolina. In 1981, he returned have one son, Alan, who is 24. Harry 1964 to the Mountain to lead the newly Noyes and his wife, Maria, are still 1969 Donald Griffiswas included in the merged St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School. enjoying the good life in San Antonio, Dan F. Callahan moved to Hernando, 2007 edition of The Best Lawyers in Tex. He is a public affairs specialist Miss., to be with his wife, Laura, after America in the category of alternative at HQ, United States Army Medical retiring from the Tennessee Air National dispute resolution and commercial 1966 Command in San Antonio. He is writ- Guard in the fall of 2004. The couple litigation. He was also listed in Super Hodge Alves has been included in ing a commemorative series for the spent a year and a half traveling, Lawyers. He is a partner in the the 2007 edition of The Best Law- Army Medical Department news- golfing, and enjoying each other’s com- litigation section of Jackson Walter yers in America in the field of mari- paper about army medicine in the pany. Dan returned to the work force, LLP in San Angelo, Tex. Al Schmutzer time law. He is a partner in the Hand Spanish-American War, WWII, and the joining the Desoto County Planning retired after 32 years as district Arendall law firm, where he practices Korean War. Bert Polk and his wife, Commission, as a planner for special attorney general for Sevierville, Tenn. general litigation, maritime law, and Kathy, joined about 40 other friends projects and transportation. He and his wife, Cheri, now reside in environmental law in Mobile, Ala. of Sewanee for a special tour of Montana. the White House. A recent Sewanee ReunionYear graduate, Katie Hinson, C’02, is 1970 1967 November 2–3 part of the White House communi- Bill Bennett and Molly Hull Ben- 1965 Paul Abrams and his wife, Anna, cations staff. She presented a vast nett, C’72, run the Bennett School Coleman McGinnis successfully set- live in Woodland Hills, Calif., where knowledge of “The People’s House” of Irish Dance, which performs in tled a civil rights case, which “sought they have two daughters: Jennifer to the group. Virgil Shutze and his more than 70 shows each year in to erase vestiges of segregation that (27) and Alison (23). After Sewanee, wife, Katheryn, were delighted to Colorado and surrounding states. lingered long after Brown vs. Board Paul attended the University of see a large photo of their son, Virgil, Alec Moseley has been included of Education.” After teaching political Washington and the University of in USA Today. The article discussed in the 2007 edition of The Best science at TSU for 25 years, he con- Oregon, where he received a master’s extended stay business hotels and Lawyers in America in the field of tinued to work on a volunteer basis degree. He is now an actuary with showed young Virgil riding a cable construction law. He is a partner in to ensure the TSU case carried out the 21st Century Insurance Group. car during a business trip. the Hand Arendall law firm, where its obligations from the case order in Pete Cavert and his wife, Mary, he focuses on construction law and 2001. Coley said, “We got $20 million live in Birmingham, Ala. They have complex business disputes. Alec is to renovate the old UTN campus in the two daughters, Katie, C’97, and 1968 also the author of the book, Alabama middle of downtown Nashville to make Elizabeth. Phil Dyson noted that after Robert J. Kuehnle Construction Law, a comprehensive it a center for non-traditional students, Hurricane Camille, Ivan, and others published a novel, and current reference tool for con- $15 million to establish an endow- in previous years, he thought he had Waltzing at the tractors, sureties, insurers, owners, ment for the first time ever, and other seen the worst a hurricane could Piggly Wiggly design professionals, and the lawyers monies for scholarships, administra- do. “I would have stuck it out with (Putnam, August who represent them in construction tive infrastructure, etc.” An attorney for Katrina based on the ‘Camille is the 2006), under the industry transactions and disputes. the plaintiff explained: “The case did worst that can happen’ scenario…so pen name Robert The Rev. Stephen B. Snider, rector of for higher education what the Brown much for empirical meteorology.” Phil Dalby. “Dalby’s a suburban Philadelphia Episcopal case did for elementary and second- and his wife, Frances, live in southern darling debut is a parish for the past 16 years, retired ary education.” After 25 years as the Alabama, about three blocks east of light jaunt around the fairy tale-like from active ministry on September head of St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School “Hurricane Alley.” Morgan Eiland and town of Second Creek, Miss., where 1, 2006. He and his wife, Irene, (SAS), the Rev. William S. Wade will his wife, Susan, live in Birmingham, the weather is ‘God’s messenger have returned from a trip to Prague retire in June 2008. According to the Ala., where Morgan has taken an service,’ people waltz in the aisles of a and Budapest, and they plan to visit Rev. Peter Cheney, executive director of interest in southern culture, history, grocery store, and the Annual Delta San Diego and San Francisco to the National Association of Episcopal and general heritage — particularly Floozie Contest packs the town see their sons, Matt and Steve. Chip Schools, Wade is one of the longest the history of the University of the square,” says Publishers Weekly. Watt and his wife, Virginia, moved tenured and most highly respected South. Joseph A. Kicklighter was William Arthur Simms has been to Houston, Tex., where Chip is the heads in the Episcopal school world one of two recipients of a large cash included in the 2007 edition of The executive director of Medical Bridges, and “one of the finest priests, educa- award for outstanding professors at Best Lawyers in America in the fields Inc., a Houston-based clearinghouse tors, and leaders of this generation.” Auburn. The entire faculty at Auburn of personal injury litigation and for unused medical supplies. The He received his master of divinity, University, not just the liberal arts product liability litigation. He is the company collects the supplies from cum laude, from Virginia Theological college, was considered for the past president of the Tennessee the Houston health care community Seminary and was ordained a priest award. Tracy Lightcap and his wife, chapter of the American Board of Trial and distributes them to qualified in 1969. Before SAS, he served as Ann, live in Atlanta, Ga., where Tracy Advocates, and he is currently one of providers of medical care, who then chaplain of the National Cathedral commutes as a professor of political the senior partners in the Knoxville, aid the poor in developing countries School in Washington, D.C. He was science at La Grange College. He Tenn., law firm of Arnett, Draper, & around the world. a master at St. Paul’s School in New earned a master’s from the University Hagood . Hampshire, and an assistant rector for of South Carolina in 1974 and a churches in both New Hampshire and Ph.D. from Emory in 1980. They

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Eddie Settles married Eve Yeargain believed strongly in community, and of physical medicine at the Univer- 1971 Berry in December 2002. They moved his goal was for all students to “find sity of Missouri-Columbia School of Herndon Inge, Communications Chair back to the Mountain, and their son, their place” here on the Mountain. Medicine, has been elected chair of [email protected] Nelson Berry, is a member of the class University Physicians, the medical of 2010. ReunionYear group practice for MU physicians. Sam Hopkins’ wife, Debbie, died on 1977 November 2–3 February 11, 2006, from advanced Maibeth J. Porter was included breast cancer. 1974 in the 2007 edition of The Best 1983 Barbara Sanders, in addition to her Lawyers in America for the practice Josephine H. Hicks was recently ReunionYear outpatient psychotherapy practice, areas of mass tort litigation and included in the 2007 edition of The November 2–3 1972 is the volunteer coordinator for The product liability litigation. She works Best Lawyers in America in the area Molly Hull Bennett and Bill Ben- Climate Project, a new non-profit for the Birmingham based law firm of insurance law. She is an attorney nett, C’70, run the Bennett School organization working with Al Gore of Maynard, Cooper & Gale . LLP, which has six offices in the Caro- more than 70 shows each year in warming. Elise Givhan Spainhour linas . Colorado and surrounding states. was elected as the first Bullitt County, Molly’s dressmaking company, It’s Ky., family circuit court judge. She 1981 Knotwork to Me, makes dresses won all 45 precincts and the absen- Lee Parks, Communications Co-Chair 1984 for dance schools and individual tee balloting in the circuit. She is the [email protected] Tim North lives in Belleair Beach, dancers throughout North America. first woman to serve at the circuit 990 Rudolph Street Fla., with his wife, Heather, and six Michael Coffey gave a lecture court level in the county and will Gainesville, GA 30501 daughters. He owns an actuarial firm entitled “The Vehicle Contribution to have the responsibility for building in the area. Global Change” in October 2006. He a new system from the ground up. Lindy Raad has worked for nearly 30 years in the She is married to John Spainhour, Communications Co-Chair Atmospheric Chemistry Division of C’73, and is the mother of Christian [email protected] 1985 the National Center for Atmospheric Spainhour, C’02. 4189 Marley Court Becky Nelson Ferguson Research in Boulder, Colo. There, he Rock Hill, SC 29732 Communications Chair has led a number of airborne and [email protected] ground-based missions to study 1975 Lisa Underwood was appointed 424 Carter Street atmospheric chemistry using tech- John Mackersie and his wife, Lyn, executive director of the Kentucky Libertyville, IL 60048 niques of infrared spectroscopy. He were on the Mountain September 23 Horse Racing Authority (KHRA) by 847-362-6747 currently has a permanent observing to watch the Sewanee vs. Maryville Governor Ernie Fletcher. Lisa had station at Thule, Greenland, and he game. Their son, John, plays football been serving as deputy commis- Charles Elmore won first place in the is the deputy-PI for one of the four for Maryville, so he was playing on sioner of the Department of Public Florida Press Club contest for sports instruments aboard the NASA Earth the very same field where his father Protection since June 2005 and as columns at the Palm Beach Post. Jay Observing Satellite Aura. He has used to play. The family now lives in acting general counsel for the KHRA. Faires, president of music and pub- more than 70 publications in the Athens, Tenn. She drafted new, comprehensive lishing for Lionsgate, recommends fields of stratospheric ozone chemis- regulations for thoroughbred drugs the following CDs: movie soundtracks try, greenhouse gas composition, and and the associated penalties for vio- for Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man, The infrared remote sensing. 1976 lations. She also drafted emergency U.S. vs. John Lennon, Akeelah and Michelle Mauthe Harvey regulations for the new Breeders’ the Bee, and Employee of the Month; Communications Chair Incentive program for thoroughbreds music from the Emmy-nominated 1973 [email protected] and standardbreds. Weeds; and a kids’ album, Rockin’ Peter Huggins wrote 107 Elm Avenue in the Forest with Farmer Jason. Trosclair and the Takoma Park, MD 20912 ReunionYear Becky Nelson Ferguson lives near Alligator, a picture 1982 November 2–3 Chicago with her husband, Ted, and book published by Rob Pearigen was honored with Lisa Williams Keith-Lucas spent four-year-old son. She was pleased Star Bright Books in the creation of the Pearigen Award three weeks during the summer of to revise The Handy History Answer 2006. The book will for Commitment to Community at 2006 accompanying Bran Potter, Book (2006, Visible Ink Press) before be featured on the PBS kids’ show, Sewanee. The award was created Sewanee professor of geology, on his putting her work in reference publish- Between the Lions. The show is about in the fall of 2006 to recognize western geology trip. In March 2006, ing on hold. Nancy Greenwood is an reading and how words are put outstanding student contributions to she traveled to Costa Rica to work assistant U.S. attorney in Georgia’s together, and the main characters are the Sewanee community. Rob is as- with howling monkeys through a Duke southern district, prosecuting criminal lions (puppets) that run a library. His sociate professor of political science, University sponsored anthropology cases. In early 2007 she trained for novel for middle readers, entitled, In vice president of University Relations, project. Lisa is a science teacher at St. the New Orleans Mardi Gras half the Company of Owls, will be published and the former dean of students at Andrew’s-Sewanee School. Gregory marathon in New Orleans, where she in spring 2007 by NewSouth Books. Sewanee. As dean of students, he Worsowicz, chair of the department was joined by Nancy Brim, C’86,

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East, where he has an ophthalmol- publication later this year. He credits ogy practice specializing in LASIK. Sewanee with helping him develop a love for classic literature, in addition 1986 to his affinity for pop culture. Virginia Hipp Phillippi ReunionYear Communications Co-Chair 1987 November 2–3 [email protected] Stephen Alvarez exhibited his 41 Ginger Gold Drive photojournalism project at St. Simpsonville, SC 29681 Andrew’s-Sewanee School Gallery. The project, which can be viewed Michele Davenport Salchow at , was entitled, Through a Glass [email protected] Darkly: Conflict and Aftermath on the 501 Eckford Dr. Sudan-Uganda Border. The photos Troy, MI 48085 can be purchased, and all proceeds go to charity work for Uganda. John Sandy Gregg Connolly released Swasey lives in Houston, Tex., with her debut CD entitled, No Turning his wife, Dena, and two children. Class of 1988 members Kyle Dice Seage, Annette Carpenter Wawerna, and Back, in December 2005. She has He is an actor and director for the Susan Landreth Everitt celebrated turning the big 40 with a trip to Charleston been married to Brian Connolly for company AD Vision, which produces and Seabrook Island last summer. Last fall, they spent a weekend in Atlanta 15 years, and has a full schedule anime (Japanese animation) dubbed visiting the zoo and Georgia Aquarium with their children: Katie Seage (6) and between her three children and her into English. Craig Turner and his Betsy Seage (3), Asher Wawerna (7) and Ava Wawerna (2), and Ellen Everitt (9). many private music students. To lis- wife, Kirsten Dahlberg Turner, C’88, Annette lives in the Grant Park area of Atlanta, Ga., Kyle lives in Madison, Miss., ten to some clips of Sandy’s music, moved to Virginia Beach in August and Susan lives in Augusta, Ga. visit . Virginia 2005. Craig is the sales manager for Hipp Phillippi retired as assistant Carter Machinery’s Hampton Roads Marcella McCord, C’87, Kim Valek, serve in a hospital on the oncology director of Tax Knowledge Services offices. Their three daughters are 6, C’87, Tucker Deaton, C’87, Laura unit. Robert Persons and his wife, with Ernst and Young in October 9, and 11 years old. Haas, C’86, and Julia Gable, C’86. Mary Anne, announce the birth of 2005. In an effort to have a greater Ann Herpel graduated in May 2006 twins Alana Mariana and Bella Ona ‘quality of life,’ she moved with her with a Ph.D. in Christian Social Ethics on August 28, 2006. They reside husband and five-year-old daughter 1988 from Union Theological Seminary in in Dillon, Colo. Les Rogers lives in from Washington, D.C., back to her Kirsten Dahlberg Turner and her New York City. She and her husband, Vero Beach, Fla., where he teaches hometown, Greenville, S.C. She loves husband, Craig Turner, C’87, moved Raffaele D’Onofrio, live in Brooklyn, conceptual physics and chemistry being closer to family and having to Virginia Beach in August 2005. N.Y. Ann works as a coordinator at to eighth graders. In his 11 years at more time at home. Virginia serves Kirsten is a Pilates and aerobics the Park Slope Food Co-op. Emilie St. Edwards School, he has coached as the membership coordinator for instructor for Inlet Fitness in Virginia Ostertag Lowens has been working football and weightlifting. He has the Greenville County Museum of Art Beach and sings for the Virginia as a certified physician assistant trained athletes in Olympic weightlift- and as the North American Recipro- Beach Symphony Chorus. Their three for 10 years in a large, busy, public ing, taking three of them to national cal Museum program manager. Mi- daughters are 6, 9, and 11 years old. hospital. Dorcas Worley Lushet- competitions. In his spare time he is chele Davenport Salchow wrote that sky, a psychotherapist in a small restoring a 32-foot sailboat. Caroline 2006 “brought major life changes. practice, lives in rural Corning, N.Y. Malottke Rollins, head chorister at Fifteen years after leaving Vanderbilt 1989 She and her family enjoy sailing Episcopal Church of the Holy Cross with an MBA, I married fellow Owen Laura Millard Ladd Seneca Lake, snow skiing, and New in Tryon, N.C., became the first Voice classmate Greg Salchow in February.” Communications Chair York’s wine country. Colin “Mac” for Life medal recipient in the United She and her children then moved [email protected] McNease returned to Long Beach, States, receiving the Bronze Award in from a Nashville suburb to join Greg 104 Temple Hollow Circle Calif., from his second Marine Corps October 2005. Joe Royal resides in in a Detroit suburb, and they jokingly Nashville, TN 37221 tour to Al Anbar, Iraq. He writes that Yardley, Pa., with his wife, Kathy Rap- say they’ve been “exiled to the North.” he is divorced and is returning to a polt Royal, C’86, and two daughters. The family hopes to return to south- Sims Boulware Bullock is the civilian job — flying airplanes and He is active at St. Andrew’s Episcopal ern soil following a minimum number principal of her own advertis- helicopters for the federal govern- Church and plans a trip to Honduras of Michigan winters. Brent Sudduth ing agency and both mother and ment. Elizabeth Crow Perkins this summer with Heifer International. has published eight books through stepmother. She reports that “it’s fun completed class work in massage Joe is president of H. M. Royal, Inc. three mainstream publishing houses. being the boss!” A related venture is therapy and is doing an internship. Jonathon Woolfson married in 2006. His latest project is a play for middle her recently-founded greeting card She hopes to combine her massage He and his wife, Lori, have traveled grades based loosely on The Odys- company, Get It Cowgirl . She promises, “You’ll

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find some cards that were definitely Door, Lullabies for Disaster Relief, a inspired by Sewanee.” Adam Carlos collection of twenty-six lullabies in announces his web site, , where you can disasterrelief.org>. She lives in view samples of his commissioned Poughkeepsie, N.Y., with her husband, portraits and the Hands of Music se- Anthony, and one year-old son. ries, learn about the great instrumen- Elka Olsen Carroll and Jon Carroll, talists he has drawn, and order prints C’93, announce and t-shirts. Prints of his drawing of the birth of the Sewanee gates are available as Alexander Van well. Hands of Music was exhibited Fossen Carroll on in the Nashville International Airport July 14, 2006. from December 2006 through March The family lives in 2007. Sheri Joseph teaches creative Dallas, Tex. writing at Georgia State University in Denise Fletcher Atlanta, and she recently published finished her her first novel,Stray , in February. novel, The Advent of the King, a ninth- Sheri reports that she survived the century medieval adventure she wrote tenure process last year, and is serv- under the pseudonym Fletcher King. Richard “Richie” Glynn Poff III, son of Christina Mosca Poff, C’92, and Richard ing as fiction editor ofFive Points Midwest Book Poff, was baptized on September 17, 2006. Carolyn Anderson Moise, C’92, literary magazine. Laura Millard Reviews gave it and Gowan Moise, C’90, are Richie’s godparents. Ladd joined Katcher Vaughn & Bailey, five stars. The a public relations firm in Nashville, novel is available Tennessee and The Frist Center for the Caldera Pharmaceuticals, a biotech Tenn., as an account supervisor. She for order at Visual Arts in Nashville, and would company. Todd Williams and his wife, and her husband, Jon, and two sons . Brian Reynolds lives in Lutherville, Ga., last year. Todd has worked with and Benjamin Warner, C’90, live in William Anthony Md., with his wife, Jill, and two sons. ScottMadden, Inc. for five years as a Los Alamos, N. Mex., and they have Hay lives in West Brian designs and programs management consultant and was three children. Elizabeth Appunn Point, Miss., with computer games at his company, Big recently promoted to director. Peterson was ordained in the Pres- his wife, Carolyn Jane, and their three Huge Games . His hobbies include the piano, as a minister in Knoxville, where she of history at Mississippi State folk harmonica, “Euro” board games, 1991 resides with her husband, Greg, and University in Starkville. Before this snorkeling, and wishing more of his Melanie Urick, Communications Chair their two children. Liz reports that her appointment, the family spent three old Sewanee friends would send in [email protected] husband, a professor in electrical years in Philadelphia, Pa., where Will class notes, even if they didn’t win 246 Bronxville Road engineering, was granted tenure ran the European studies program for jaw-dropping prizes on TV game Bronxville, NY 10708 and she is training for her first half the Foreign Policy Research Institute shows (Congrats, Maria!). Cameron marathon (having completed her after completing a Ph.D. in history at Wallace Swallow teaches seventh Catherine Masden announces the first 10K race in November 2006). the University of Virginia. Will’s book, grade mathematics at Davidson birth of her daughter, Sarah John Swallow and Cameron Wallace The Whig Revival, 1808-1830, International Baccalaureate Middle Catherine Brahimi, on November 9, Swallow, C’90, returned with their appeared with Palgrave in 2005. School; she and husband John 2005. She was born in Montreal, two daughters, after a year in Bor- Thomas Mavor is back in New Swallow, C’89, and two daughters Quebec, Canada, and will have dual deaux, to Davidson University where Orleans, rebuilding his Katrina-flooded recently returned from a year in citizenship as a Canadian and John teaches. John was elected a house “…finally.” He serves as the vice Bordeaux. Sandy Guitar Wallis American. Catherine adds, “She is a section lecturer for the Mathematical principal for discipline and atten- formed a private equity firm with healthy and very happy girl! She Association of America, a position dance at Brother Martin High School, three partners called Weathergage enjoys walking daily on Mount Royal held by Sewanee’s own Dr. Stephen a boys’ Catholic prep school. Valerie Capital. Weathergage invests funds in with her parents and two pug dogs. I Puckette in 1991. McCord ran two marathons in 2006, early stage venture partnerships on have been very fortunate to have a including the Marine Corps Marathon behalf of institutional investors. She year maternity leave (as is standard in Washington, D.C. She and her lives in Houston, Tex., with her in Canada) but will return to work in 1990 husband, Rob Baldwin, have two husband, Jason, and two children. January [2007] on a part-time basis Liz Edsall McLaurin children and Valerie does analysis After graduation, Sandy received an as a child psychologist.” Robert J. Communications Chair work in the telecommunications MBA from Kellogg. Benjamin Warner “Trey” Moye III has joined The [email protected] industry. Elizabeth Edsall McLaurin and Ellen McBee, C’89, live in Los Facility Group, Inc., an international is busy keeping up with her engineer/ Alamos, N.Mex., with their three design and construction manage- Courtenay “Becky” Budd Caramico musician husband, Richard, and two children. Ben left Los Alamos National ment firm based in Atlanta. He is the released a CD, Sleep is Behind the sons. She writes for the Land Trust for Laboratory after 10 years to form firm’s associate general counsel.

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John Shoop was named the and report that their current hobbies outdoors of the Pacific Northwest. Lewis announces the birth of Robert University of North Carolina Tar Heels’ include diapers and sleeplessness. Madison is an assistant professor in Joseph Lewis on August 9, 2006. He offensive coordinator and quarter- A former kindergarten teacher, Cathy neurosurgery at the University of joins his two sisters, Mary Pratt (6) backs coach in January 2007, after works as program director for a Tennessee Health Sciences Center in and Elia (2). Pratt is CIO of Guaranty serving two seasons with the Oakland children’s mentoring organization Memphis. They have two sons. Bank & Trust Company in Greenville, Raiders. He was Oakland’s quarter- called The Buddy Program. Cathy Elizabeth Crane Swent took a break Miss. Anne Steilberg Mize and her backs coach in 2005, the tight ends plans a return to her usual pastimes from her husband, Bill, and two sons in husband, Greg, announce the birth of coach in 2006 and was elevated to of skiing and snowboarding in winter, Greenville, S.C., to meet Lisa Kaminski William Boyd, on offensive coordinator for the final five and hiking and road-biking in sum- Whelchel, Julie Curd, Leigh Sumerel August 22, games of the 2006 season. Julie mer. They live in Aspen, Colo. John Yarbrough, and Caroline Williams 2006. He joins McClure Tyrrell and Richard Tyrrell, Gross and Merik Spiers Gross live Heller, C’91, in Kiawah Island for his big sister, C’92, live in Colorado with their two in San Francisco, Calif., with their two activities that included “tequila shots Mary Virginia. daughters. Julie works as a trainer for children. Merik is an internist and and bar-hopping.” Richard Tyrrell and Peter Morgan is computer applications for New faculty member at the UCSF division Julie McClure Tyrrell, C’91, live in a college Horizons. Krissy Collins White and of internal medicine, and John is an Colorado with their two daughters. counselor at her husband, assistant professor in UCSF’s depart- Richard is a product manager in the Woodward Bob, announce ment of pharmaceutical chemistry. Professional Services division of Sun Academy in Atlanta, Ga. Catherine the birth of their Tripp Head and his wife, Julie, live in Microsystems. Edwards O’Connor, her husband, son, John Michael, and their six children (four Dawson, on boys, two girls) live in Fredericksburg, October 20, 1993 Va. Bachman Smith and his wife, 2006. They live Jonathan Webster Kathryn, have a four-month-old in Houston, Tex. Communications Chair daughter. They live in Mt. Pleasant, [email protected] S.C. Bachman is an attorney in ReunionYear 5 Grouse Run Road Charleston. Susanna Rogers Smith 1992 November 2–3 Lexington, VA 24450 completed her masters of science in Baron Jordan 540-462-2864 library and information studies at Communications Co-Chair Florida State University in December. [email protected] Homewood, Ala., with their daughters Chase Bean and Julia Daniell Bean She is the technical services librarian 578 Montgomery Ferry Road Jane Harris (1) and Mary Austin (3). had fun visiting with Yogi Anderson, for Patrick Henry College. Her Atlanta, GA 30324 Tripp is a partner at Balch & C’72, in Kansas City, Mo., before husband, Gregory Thomas Smith, is Bingham LLP, in the firm’s environ- Christmas. Carolyn Kannwischer an assistant professor of philosophy Patrick Whelchel mental and natural resources Bess is the producer of Arts & Let- at the college. They enjoy living in the Communications Co-Chair section. Julie is a pediatric nurse ters Live, a literary and performing mountainous area of northern [email protected] practitioner at Children’s Hospital arts series at the Dallas Museum of Virginia because it reminds them of 241 Coventry Rd. and a busy mom. Baron Jordan and Art. One of the programs this year Sewanee. Jennie Goodrum Turrell Decatur, GA 30030 his wife, Amy, announce the birth of will combine visual art, poetry, and lives in Sewanee with her husband, Gray Jordan on January 12, 2007. song of the past sixty years and Jim. Jennie is working on her masters Hunter Crose, a family practice They reside in midtown Atlanta and will feature baritone Ryan Clan- of education in art and elementary doctor in Bluffton, S.C., spends enjoy frequent treks to their family ton, C’94, and soprano Courtenay education at UT Chattanooga and his free time hunting, fishing, and mountain house in N.C. Baron is “Becky” Budd Caramico, C’90. continues to do freelance graphic kiteboarding. He plans to sail in the serving as a planning committee Andrew Bouldin relocated to Atlanta, design work. Allison Bridges Charleston to Bermuda sailboat race member for the Atlanta Beltline and Ga., where he is a senior recruit- Williamson and her husband, Bright, in May 2007. Emily Jenkins Followill learning new songs on the mandolin. ing consultant for the Southern announce the birth of twins, Ben and is married to Tom Followill, C’91, and Matt McConnell lives in Lafayette, Company, the nation’s largest electric Henry Williamson, on June 16, 2006. they have two children. For the past La., with his wife, Caroline, and three utility. Jon Carroll and Elka Olsen They are moving back to their six years, her freelance photography daughters. Matt joined Preis & Roy, a Carroll, C’90, announce the birth of hometown of Charleston, S.C., from has been based on shooting homes regional law firm with offices in Alexander Van Fossen on July 14, Salt Lake City, Utah. Will Womack and gardens for major publications Lafayette, Houston, and New Orleans. 2006. They live in Dallas, Tex. Arjun and his wife, Nancy Nettles in and around the Atlanta area. Her Scott McDermott completed a nine- Charanjiva is senior brand manager Womack, C’94, returned to the U.S. work has appeared in Veranda (Nov/ week journey rowing the upper Nile for M&M’s Chocolate Candies in from London in 2005, after Will Dec 2006, Jan/Feb 2007), Atlanta River in a traditional Chaddian Pusha New Jersey. He led the launch of completed a Ph.D. at the School of Magazine HOME (Cover photo, Winter boat. Madison Michael and his wife, the integrated marketing program Oriental and African Studies, 2007), Atlanta Homes and Lifestyles Christie, celebrated their ninth . Jim Hamilton University of London. They live in and Better Homes and Gardens. anniversary on Vancouver Island in earned his Ph.D. in forestry and Auburn, Ala., with their three-year-old Cathy Fisher Greuter and her hus- Canada, where they enjoyed the is teaching and developing online twins. Will teaches in the history band, Fritz, have a daughter, Shelby, eclectic eateries and the scenic courses in North Carolina. Pratt department at Auburn University as a

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visiting assistant professor. Heather forward to building her reputation as Howell Wright left private practice at a portrait artist when he starts Smith Moore LLP to return to the kindergarten in the fall. Holly Federal Judiciary to serve as an Kirkgard Wilbourn is the director of attorney for the Honorable N. Carlton development for Holy Comforter Tilley. Her husband, Dan Wright, left Episcopal School in Tallahassee, Fla. Greensboro Day School after 10 Nancy Nettles Womack and her years to work on his master’s at the husband, Will Womack, C’93, Babcock Graduate School of returned to the U.S. from London in Management at Wake Forest. Their 2005. They live in Auburn, Ala., with son, Howell, is two years old. their three-year-old twins. 1994 1995 Susie Davis Katherine Israel Communications Co-Chair Communications Chair [email protected] [email protected] 3216 Post Woods Drive, Apartment K 771 Madeline Ln. Atlanta, GA 30339 Auburn, AL 36832 Over the summer, the following Sewanee alums took a “family trip” to China Elizabeth “Buffy” Mackenzie Tallman Johnson and Gwendolyn — they visited Beijing, Shanghai, and the Great Wall. From left to right: Joe Mo- Communications Co-Chair Weien, C’98, were married in July bley, C’99; Janie Mebane Mobley, C’99; Beverly Mebane, Catherine Mebane [email protected] 2004, in Sturtevant, C’99; and Drew Sturtevant, C’98. This picture was taken from the 1786 Casselberry Ct. Arlington, Va. Great Wall. Orange Park, FL 32003 Their daughter, Madeline Alice, Heather Bennett moved to was born on Jacksonville, Ill., for a tenure-track March 22, 2006. Diane O’Bryan Johnston Worth, Tex. Carter Clements position as an assistant professor of Tallman Communications Co-Chair graduated from Vanderbilt Law biology at Illinois College. She continues to [email protected] School in May 2004. He is a bank teaches a variety of biology classes, work on Capitol 15 Jerusalem Road Dr. finance attorney for White and Case including zoology and marine biology. Hill as a staff member for the House Cohasset, MA 02025 LLP in New York City. Leigh Ann Cox “In an interesting coincidence,” Financial Services Committee. Misty is executive vice president of a Heather adds, “Jenny Stafford Brown, Lee Maib and Grant Jackson Julie Almendral produces documen- property development company in daughter of Sewanee’s dean of Palmer, C’96, were married on tary films and lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. Gulfport, Miss. She moved there after theology, the Very Rev. Dr. Stafford, is August 26, 2006, at the Luxor Hotel Susanne Tennent Buck and James working for Mississippi Governor on the modern languages faculty and Casino in Las Vegas, Nev. The Willis Cantey III, were married Barbour’s Commission on Recovery, here. It’s such a small world, and couple lives in Albany, N.Y., where November 11, 2006, in Grace Rebuilding, and Renewal, which was Sewanee connections are every- Misty teaches mathematics at Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. set up after Hurricane Katrina. where!” Margaret Louise Scotia-Glenville High School. Susanne and Willis live in Charles- Frances Royster Currie and Cottingham Barbara Lucia Major and Stephen ton, where Willis is a managing Malcolm Lewis married Matthew Jackson announced the birth of their consultant with Blackbaud and Sewell were Walter Harms third child, Garrit Illges, on October Susanne is the managing member of married on June (right) on 10, 2006. Garrit joins older sister, ZAN LLC, an affiliate of Jupiter 24, 2006, at October 14, Lucia, and brother, Eli. Holdings. Ashley Brown Callahan First Presbyterian 2006, in Dallas, wrote Modern Threads: Fashion and Church in Tex. Christie Art by Mariska Karasz. Karasz, a Atlanta, Ga. Kizer married 1996 Hungarian-born American designer Sewanee friends Brice Burbank on Brooke Vaughan Schroeder and artist, worked in New York Chad Bottorff, May 6, 2006, at the Church of the Communications Co-Chair designing custom clothing for women Laura Crookston Deleot, Roe Elam, Good Shepherd on Lookout [email protected] in the 1920s, modern clothing for John Inman, David Phelps, Mountain, Tenn. They live in 2509 Fairfax Ave. children in the 1930s, and Katherine Slingluff, Sarah Chattanooga. Suzanne Witherington Nashville, TN 37212 embroidered wall hangings in the Thompson, and John Wallace, all Warren and Kellam Warren, C’96, late 1940s and 1950s. Barbara C’96, were in the wedding party. Lisa relocated to Chapel Hill, N.C. last Clark-Galupi is vice president of Akerman Duke is the business year. Suzanne stays busy taking care marketing and development for All development manager for Simplified of their son, and she is looking Church Home for Children in Fort Technology Solutions Inc. in Atlanta,

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Ga. Lee Hamilton is married to Tina Albany, N.Y., where Grant works as a Johnson Hamilton and they have a research scientist for Albany four-year-old daughter. Lee has been Molecular Research. Jeff Peters an Alabama State Trooper for the last married Jane Hays on November 4, 10 years and is now the assistant 2006, in New Orleans. Jeff works as unit commander for the State Trooper assistant general counsel at Tulane Aviation Unit. Jim Henley and Skye University. Tom Powell and his wife, Howell Henley Julie Graves Powell, C’97, reside in announce the birth of Melba Josephine on August 25, 2006. Jim works with financial models at Moodys in Manhattan. “Skye works for Melba,” Barbara L. Harris, C’94, married Tim Vaughan on June 24, 2006, at St. Mark’s he wrote. Tom Hay married Melissa Cocoa, Fla. with their two daughters Episcopal Church in Berkeley Springs, W.Va. Many Sewanee alumni attended, McCanna on June 4, 2005. They live Mary Thomas (3) and Sarah Grace including Thomas Hammond, C’98; Christopher Hammond, C’98; Alice Sneary in Arlington, Va., where Tom (1). Tom is a biologist for the Schmidt, C’97; Kelli Lassiter Hammond, C’97; Paul Hammond, C’94; Barbara coordinates environmental Smithsonian at the Kennedy Space Harris, C’94; Patrice Schermerhorn, C’92; Laura Boyer Talbot, C’94; Heather compliance for FEMAs mitigation and Center and Julie continues to love Bennett, C’94; Val Schmidt, C’94; Chris Turner, C’92; and David Wacaster, disaster response and recovery being at home with their two C’92. programs. Andrew Israel married girls. Cathy Rafferty married Peter Brooke Pickrell in Tucson, Ariz. on Devlin Quinn on January 15, 2005. March 20, 2004. They live in They live in Washington, D.C., with Williamstown, Mass. Andrew teaches their daughter, Eleanor Alyce (Nora) middle school math and science at Quinn, who was born on August 19, the Arts and Technology Charter 2006. Cathy is the assistant rector of Public School, while Brooke works for St. John’s Church. David Thompson St. John’s Episcopal Church and was named a partner at the law firm Williams College. Eliza Fisher of Neal and Harwell this past Laskowski completed her Ph.D. in January. Stacey Tompkins moved to renaissance literature from the Nashville, Tenn., in August to begin University of North Carolina at the master of theological studies Chapel Hill in May of 2006. She is a program at Vanderbilt Divinity School. post-doctoral lecturer in the UNC Kent Underwood is an intervention English Department. Berkeley Little specialist and assistant football teaches Latin, history and works on coach at Hoover High School in the admissions team for the Upper Birmingham. John Warren lives in School at Greenhill School in Luanda, Angola. Kellam Warren and Addison, Tex. She started her own Suzanne Witherington Warren, C’94, travel business, Odyssey Tours LLC, and their son, moved to Chapel Hill, as a way to lead students on N.C. last year. Kellam is busy Cameron Graham, C’95, married Roberto Vivanco on August 12, 2006, in educational trips. Sean F. O’Quinn is heading up the employment litigation Quito, Ecuador. Several Sewanee alumni and staff attended. Pictured: Seth in his final year of law school at practice of a regional law firm, Hinkley, C’92; Eric Hartman; Catherine Traywick Hutchinson, C’95; Sarah Gonzaga. “I have accepted a job with Wyrick, Robbins, Yates & Ponton, in Parrish DeVries, C’00; Cameron Graham Vivanco, C’95; Trent Zivkovich, the firm Winston & Cashatt in Raleigh, N.C. C’95; Annwn Myers; Margaret Upchurch Zivkovich, C’95; Cathy Gross, C’95; Spokane, Wash., where I will be Elizabeth Sherwood, C’95; Abi White, C’97; Pierce Myers; Dixon Myers; and doing civil, commercial, and criminal Tilghman Myers. litigation. We had a second son, named Ian, last year. Sorry to have missed reunion.” Grant Jackson Palmer and Misty Lee Maib, C’95, were married on August 26, 2006, at the Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nev. The couple lives in

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ReunionYear her husband, Roberto, announce the 1997 November 2–3 birth of their first child, Ryan, on August 30, 2006. Natalie Sparks Land Deleot, Communications Chair married Zonny Bullock on February [email protected] 18, 2006, at All Saints’ Episcopal Colliers Turley Martin Tucker Church in Tupelo, Miss. The Very Brokerage and Leasing Reverend Shannon S. Johnston, 5250 Virginia Way, Suite 100 C’81, oversaw the ceremony, and Brentwood, TN 37027 Sewanee trustee Deb Selph Davis, 615-312-2925 C’73, was in attendance. 615-312-2958(f)

Kimberly Harvin Bryant moved to 1998 Houston last June with her husband, Lauren Auttonberry Todd, and their daughter. Todd Communications Chair graduated from the Episcopal [email protected] Seminary of the Southwest, so they 207 Magnolia St. have settled into life as a clergy Edwards, MS 39066 family at St. Christopher’s Episcopal Caroline Powell, C’96, married Brian Green on June 3, 2006, at the Episco- Church in League City, Tex. Stephanie pal Church of the Incarnation in Highlands, N.C. Pictured are, in the back row, Becca Taylor Anderson and her Dickson Edmonds and her husband, Heather Langdale, C’96; Elizabeth Anderson Speed, C’96; Julie Lindyberg An- husband, Chris, Brian, announce the birth of Davis derson, C’96; Christine Keating, C’96; Penelope Powell, C’02; Alison Hoehn, announce the Dickson on September 1, 2006. C’94; Melissa Lykins, C’97; and, in the front row, Clinton Fisher, C’96. birth of Mason Alexandra Huffman lives in Christopher on Cincinnati, with her husband Cole December 23, Ollinger. She works for a personal 2005. Sara wealth advisory firm, Truepoint Anderson Capital, as the marketing and client Donahoe works service manager. Cole has his own in the client consulting business, advising clients relations department at Bass Berry & on written communication spanning Sims, a law firm in Nashville. She various industries. Will Jennings was lives there with her husband, Drew. one of 23 participants chosen Rachel McMillen Grier and her nationwide last summer to study for husband, Jason, two months at the American announce the Academy in Rome. Robbie Spruill birth of Isabella Kalish co-wrote a book with her Grier on January graduate school classmates and 30, 2006. their professor. In the book, Tensions Rachel and Triumphs in the Early Years of graduated from Teaching: Real-World Findings and South Texas Advice for Supporting New Teachers, College of Law they share their experiences as new and passed the Texas bar exam last teachers and discuss the differences year. John Holden and his wife, between their expectations and the Megan, were married in August realities of teaching. It was published Tom Dees III, C’96, married Stephanie Hazlewood on December 2, 2006, in 2003. He left his former airline job by the National Council of Teachers Dallas, Tex. Pictured above are Eric Naylor, C’58, Hays Green, Tom Dees, and and is now a captain on a Falcon of English and is available at . Betsy Pollett Munoz and Manassas, Va. Megan was hired as a flight attendant for the company in 2004, and the couple spends a lot of time flying together and traveling the world. Some of their international highlights have been the UAE, Greece, Scotland, England, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Ukraine, Estonia, and lots of

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Caribbean islands. Adrea Mondelli Abigail Cudabac. Emily Rue Holmes lives in Venice Beach, Calif., with her husband, Grant Lavezzoli. Adrea is a producer for a music and sound design studio and Grant is an art director with BBDO West. They met in post-graduate studies at the Portfolio Center in Atlanta. Gwendolyn Weien and Tallman Johnson, C’95, were married in July 2004 in Arlington, Va. They announce the birth of Madeline and John Holmes announce the birth Alice on March 22, 2006. Gwen has of their twin sons, William Turner and spent the past seven years teaching Samuel Thomas, on February 4, first grade at a charter school in 2006. John practices law at Maynard, Washington, D.C. Reggie Ramsey Cooper & Gale PC in Birmingham, was part of a 10-man team in the Ala. Skip Joslin was accepted into second annual Blue Ridge Relay, a Georgetown University’s Executive 208-mile race through the moun- Master’s in Leadership program, tains of North Carolina. He was which is offered by the McDonough joined by Andy Hatcher, C’96; School of Business. The program Anson Mount, C’95; Scott Nystrom, focuses on the passion, purpose, C’96; Brooks Smith, C’94; and Dave and practical skills necessary for Waddell, C’95. Drew Sturtevant and effective leadership. He will be in the his wife, Catherine Mebane program until December 2007. Miles Sturtevant, C’99, are doing well in Knickerbocker and Kristie Alcorn Alexandra Huffman, C’97, married Cole Ollinger of Atlanta, Ga., on October Greenville, S.C., where Drew is (exchange 28, 2006, in her hometown, Dayton, Ohio. Pictured are Alexandra and Cole president of Anvis Alarm. student 1998– with other 1997 Sewanee alumnae. Top row: Lindsay McMillan Powers, Cole 99) married on Ollinger, Catherine Holton Martin. Bottom row: Robin Aiken, Alexandra Huff- 1999 August 26, man Ollinger, Julia Lynn Couey. 2006, in Mackay, Jay Donnelly, Communications Chair Australia. They [email protected] live in Brisbane, P.O. Box 23287 Australia, where Chattanooga, TN 37422 she has started a post-doctorate in women’s Rebecca Pitts Bornac and her psychology at the University of husband, Brad, announce the birth of Queensland. He works for Sentis, a Waylon Joseph Bornac on October company that facilitates cognitive 17, 2006. Nicole Mes Cotter will behavioral safety and leadership finish her residency in internal programs to the resource and medicine in June. She and her construction sectors. Jon Morris husband, Jim, will be moving back to performed in five plays in 2006, Shreveport, La., where she will start including writing, performing, and her fellowship in rheumatology at producing American Vaudeville at the LSU. Annelies Echols worked her Edinburgh Festival. He appeared in third season with the Radio City national commercials for Target, Christmas Spectacular, starring the Adidas, ask.com, and Kenmore; and Rockettes. Annelies had the pleasure in a Belle & Sebastian music video. Adrea Mondelli, C’98, married Grant Lavezzoli on May 28, 2006, at the Belle of seeing Jeremiah Murphy star in He also worked with the directors of Meade Carriage House in Nashville, Tenn. First row: Kristen Morrisey Thiede, Vote McOwskey! at the New York Little Miss Sunshine for the C’98; Megan Lomax Emery, C’98. Second row: Annie Strickler, C’98; Molly Du- International Fringe Festival with Sundance new-media competition. In Bray, C’98; Erin Simpson, C’98; Jenn Kirk, C’98; Shannon Smith, C’98; Krista John Henry Watson and Heather 2007, he will be writing and Mondelli, C’05; (back row) Michael Mondelli, C’93; Turner Emery, C’98; John McAdams. Mindy Clowe married performing daily news to launch Stroup, C’98; Campbell Walker, C’98; Shepley Smith, C’98; Harrison Grubbs, Wes Feurtado on October 14, 2006, HBO/AOL’s online comedy channel, C’99; Jay Donnelly, C’99; and Andy Ferguson, C’99. Not pictured: Martha Webb in Culpeper,Va. Sewanee attendees along with starting a theater events Galyon, C’98. included Ben and Kelly Carlisle and company, SCHEMA, with friends.

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Keep up with this busy man at . Kinion Asmus 2000 Pond spent the summer of 2006 as Brian Fiore, Communications Chair a teacher and senior counselor for [email protected] Concordia Language Village’s French 922 Manor Rd., #322 immersion camp. Kinion teaches Alexandria, VA 22305 SEWANEE eighth grade humanities at St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School. Jen Vibul Priddy will finish her residency in OB- GYN at Indiana University in June. She has accepted a job in India- SUMMER napolis, where she will begin work in August. Charles Pringle was featured in an October 23, 2006, story in BusinessWeek online, “Who Needs Recruiters? More MBA grads SEMINAR 2007 are looking off-campus to find that perfect job.” The story used Charles, who had just graduated from Session One: June 24-29 Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, Casey Elizabeth George married as an example of an MBA grad who James L. Jackson on December 19, Session Two: July 8-13 found his own way after graduation. 2006, in Las Vegas. She is pursuing her doctorate in educational policy He went on to a management Alumni and friends, enjoy Sewanee in the summer and stretch position at Rayonier Inc., a Florida- studies at the University of Illinois at based timber real-estate investment Urbana-Champaign. Shawna Miller your brain a little! We have an exciting cast of professors and trust. Margaret Rankin lives in served two and a half years in the our usual mix of interesting topics this year. As we approach Tuscaloosa, Ala., where she teaches Peace Corps in Honduras follow- our sesquicencentennial we’ve placed an emphasis on Sewanee ing graduation. She then attended sixth-grade math while working on history and also included our traditional literature and fine arts her master’s in elementary education film school in Madrid, Spain, for at The University of Alabama. Robert a year. She returned to Miami in components. The two sessions have identical content (except Sealand is a third-year medical August 2004 and was employed where noted), featuring: student at the University of in the national headquarters for Tennessee in Memphis. Catherine Lennar Homes. Shawna was recently French Impressionism: “Worse Than promoted to creative coordinator, Professor Mishoe Brennecke: Mebane Sturtevant and her a Chamber of Horrors”? husband, Drew Sturtevant, C’98, are where she can use her film and doing well in Greenville, S.C., where artistic talents. Kim Nadell is in her Professor Stephen Miller: “Briefly Noted”: The Rise and Fall (?) of Catherine is in pharmaceutical sales fourth year of teaching eighth-grade Music Notation with Sanofi-Aventis. history at The Harpeth Hall School in Professor Bran Potter: Sewanee Was A River Nashville, Tenn. This past spring she was honored with the Heath Jones Professor Gerald Smith: A Wrinkle in Time — Sewanee about 1900 Prize for the Promise of Excellence in Former University Chaplain Tom Ward: T.S. Eliot’s Four Teaching. Sarah Sealand graduated Quartets and Contemplation in May from Memphis Theological Professor Sam Williamson: Sewanee a century ago in the Wiggins era Seminary, magna cum laude, with (First Session Only) a master of divinity. She is pursuing ordination as a full elder in the United Methodist Church. She lives Each faculty member will also present a second lecture with with her husband, Robert Sealand, discussion. We’re housed in air-conditioned Humphreys C’99. Katy Mitch Stanley and Hall, next to Stirling’s Coffee House and just down the street Clayton Stanley, C’01, announce the birth of John Clayton Stanley Jr. on from our meeting space in the Bishop’s Common. For more May 10, 2006. information, contact Professor Bran Potter, 735 University Ave., Sewanee, TN 37383; e-mail ; call 931.598.1479.

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ReunionYear 2001 2002 November 2–3 Elizabeth Pate Foley David J. Atkinson Communications Chair Communications Co-Chair [email protected] [email protected] 1200 North Herndon St. #156 1712 17th Street, NW #2 Arlington, VA 22201 Washington, DC 20009 646-320-9442 Megan Hintz moved to Baton Rouge after Hurricane Katrina. She works as Jane Harrison Chapman Fisher a registered nurse in the operating Communications Co-Chair room and plans to return to school [email protected] to receive her certification as a 108 Windstone Drive surgeon’s first assistant.Anna-Bain Oxford, MS 38655 Ladt, C’00, was a bridesmaid. In Seattle, Margaret worked as a Mary Elizabeth Allen lives in New production assistant and actress for York City after graduating from internationally recognized indepen- Vanderbilt University with a master’s dent films. She is now living in her in education. Danielle Boaeuf hometown in Louisiana to help the married community recover from hurricanes Francisco Katrina and Rita. She is working Kraljevic on July towards an MBA degree and has 16, 2005 in plans to open a small, independent Cleveland, Ohio. book publishing company. Her In attendance husband works as a music producer were Annie and sound engineer. Whit Mayo was Feltus, C’03; appointed last fall to senior equity Catherine research analyst at the investment Woody, C’02; Sarah Hinkle bank Stephens Inc. He will be Bowersox, C’03; Ben Bowersox, relocating to the firm’s Nashville C’01; and Courtney Reid, C’03. The office where he will head the firm’s couple currently lives in Pittsburgh, Healthcare Services practice focused Pa., where Dani volunteers at The on facility-based providers. Margaret Children’s Hospital. Murphy Alexis Anderson Richard married Brad “Lexie” Caine spent the winter Joseph Landry on August 13, 2005, working at Tamarack Resort in Idaho, in Seattle, Wash. Clayton Stanley where she was a cook following her Alex Coleman, C’99, married Cozy Joseph on June 3, 2006, at St. Michael’s and Katy Mitch Stanley, C’00, graduation from Le Cordon Bleu Church in Charleston, S.C. Alex’s father, Heyward Coleman, C’66, was the best announce the Culinary Arts program at Texas man. The groomsmen were Charlie Pringle, C’99; Robert Birdsey, C’99; Robert birth of John Culinary Academy in Austin. Stewart Finch, C’99; Jimmy Wallace, C’99; and Russ Prugh, C’99. Alex’s grandfather, Clayton Stanley C. Crisler Jr. married Julie Alyson J. Walker Coleman, Jr., C’40, was also in attendance, along with many other Jr. on May 10, Sowell on October 7, 2006, in St. Sewanee alumni pictured here. The Rev. Al Zadig, T’97, officiated at the cer- 2006. Augustine’s Chapel in Sewanee, emony. Photo by Julie C. Waugh Photography. Tenn. Sarah Fuson graduated from Tulane Law School in May 2006 and passed the Georgia state bar exam in October 2006. Sarah lives in Atlanta and practices labor law with Ford & Harrison, LLP. Alida Gage works at a mental health treatment center for children in Memphis, Tenn. Jennifer Helms is working on a

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master’s in geology at the University where Stretch is pursuing a master’s of Montana in Missoula. Emilie in geology from Georgia State and Gaffner Kelly, C’02, and her Laura is finishing her B.S. in nursing husband from Emory. The wedding was celebrated the attended by Chase Neal and Dave birthday of Witt, C’03. Phoebe Belle Kelly on October 18, 2006. Emilie 2003 is working as a Rachel Eason quality Communications Co-Chair assurance super- [email protected] visor for an agency in Manhattan that 1700 21st Ave., South #204 provides services to children with Nashville, TN 37212 disabilities. Melanie Miller Leithauser lives in Whittier, N.C., Anderson Neighbors where she works at the BB&T Bank, Communications Co-Chair teaches yoga, and practices massage [email protected] John Reed Thomas Jr., C’04, and Margaret Armistead Lemon, C’06, were therapy. She married Jimmy 4172 Winston Way married on September 9, 2006. Back row: Edmund Lord, C’06; Fallon Gnann, Leithauser on October 16, 2004, Birmingham, AL 35213 C’06; Sam Moore, C’04; Muguet Cox, C’04; Nick Nichols, C’03; Johnny Shoaf, with many of her Sewanee friends C’04; Amy Sharp, C’06; Brooke Barfield, C’06; Nicole Manley. Middle row: present. Meg Martens finished her Nelson Byrd wrote, “I am currently Scott Knittle, C’04; David Thompson, C’02; Lisa Thompson Shaw, C’02; Lau- master’s degree at Rice University working at the Chicago Board of ren Lively, C’06; Mary Bullard, C’05; Anne Wise, C’06; Caroline Smith, C’07. and now teaches English at Trade on the grains floor. I am Front row: Hayden Patterson, C’05; Hilary Worne, C’05; Liz Ford, C’04; Ashley Episcopal High School in Baton involved with trading futures and Deslauriers, C’06; Lindsay Coshatt, C’06; and Malia Chang, C’05. Rouge, La. Kate O’Mara earned her options — specifically the Beanoil master’s degree in 2005 from complex.” Brent Childers received Columbia University’s Graduate his master’s of public administration School of Journalism. After in May of 2006 from Western graduating, Kate interned at Kentucky University. He is a public Backpacker magazine in Emmaus, administration specialist at the Pa. She then relocated to Washing- Barren River Area Development ton, D.C., where she is an associate District in Bowling Green. Susan web editor at The Away Network. Gordy married Sarah Shellman is the development David Street on coordinator for Atlanta’s Habitat for July 1, 2006. Humanity. David C. Thompson was Wedding guests promoted to senior associate at the included Carmen Group, a top lobby shop in Elizabeth Heilig, Washington, D.C. Andrea Claire C’03; Nawal Walker is mastering the culinary arts Batteh, C’03; with gusto — flaming a mean free- Jonathon Lee, range coq au vin, mixing up C’03; and Amy Goldsmith Lee, C’03. decorative and tasty organic cakes, The couple lives in Pittsburgh, where Emily Burnett and Sam Parish, both C’02, were married on September 16, raising biga bread from the dead, Susan is attending school and 2006, at the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in Highlands, N.C. Pictured and cooking at the homes of private working in a medical research lab. left to right: Robin Pfeifer-Thompson, C’02; Katie Jones, C’02; Sara Underhill, clientele. She lives in Shreveport, La. Kristin Husainy, her husband, C’02; Adam Devries, C’04; Sara Parish Devries, C’05; Sinclair Kelly, C’02; Richard “Stretch” Whittington II Hamad, and their Noell Rembert, C’02; Sam; Zach Goodyear, C’01; Emily; Julie Anderson, C’02; married Laura D. son, Ashland Martha Greene Goodyear, C’03; Kraemer Lovelace, C’02; Dave Reinhart, Williams on James Husainy, C’02; Wilson Rogers, C’02; Jessica Osaki-Howell, C’02; Karl Long, C’02; Alida August 12, are living outside Novarese Gage, C’02; Houston Howell, C’02; Tappan Heinsohn, C’03; Morgan 2006, on the Portland, Ore., Vickery, C’02; Owen Reed, C’02; and Becca Savitz, C’03 beach at Trunk while Hamad Bay in St. John, finishes medical U.S. Virgin school. Kristin is Islands. They live in her second in Atlanta, Ga., semester teaching sculpture and

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Matt Files and Beth Jacob, both C’02, were married on June 24, 2006, at the Allison Cornwell, C’03, and Bo Moss, C’01, were married in Charlotte, N.C., on Chapel of the Apostles in Sewanee. Pictured: Jeff Runge, C’77; Ginny Runge, July 8, 2006. Other Sewanee alumni included in the wedding party were brides- C’77; Dan Rather, C’85; Brian Boehm, C’02; Jacob Burgette, C’03; Mason maids Mary Catherine Bain, C’03; Logan Chalk, C’03; Kate Osborne, C’03; Herring, C’02; Julie Jenkins, C’01; Smith McAulay, C’02; Charlie Dalton, C’02; Sidney Rue, C’03; Nan Stikeleather, C’03; and Kathryn Williams, C’03; and Josh Richmond, C’02; Penelope Powell, C’02; Elaina Ori, C’02; Ellis Mc- groomsmen Marshall Binford, C’01; Nick Dietzen, C’01; Doug Getten, C’01; Cutcheon, C’02; Beth McCutcheon, C’02; May Leinhart, C’03; Julie Anderson, Whit Mayo, C’01; John Merrick, C’01; and Stephen Still, C’01. C’02; Cheryl Burns, C’02; Clark Files, C’99; Katherine Files, C’99; Kathryn Wallingford, C’02; and Nick Wallingford, C’01.

Tara Patrice Tomlin, C’03, married Chad Thomas Moore at Saint Bartholomew’s Christian Johnson, C’03, joined Wilson Rodgers, C’02; Kramer Lovelace, C’02; Church in Nashville, Tenn., on October 14, 2006. Pictured are Rachel Russell, and Charles Seymour, C’00 for a fishing trip down the Smith River in Montana C’03; Sara Atchison, C’03; Michal Resha, C’03; Tara; Chad; Sarah Vandergriff, last summer. It was a five-day float and camping trip through the national for- C’03; Sytira Kirby, C’03; and Ginna Novak, C’03. est, which left plenty of time for reminiscing about the glory days back on the Mountain.

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drawing at Pacific University in Forest International and an intern at Folio squadron in the Atlantic Fleet. Grove. Christian Johnson resides in Literary Management. The Nashville Brooke Swafford, a graduate 2004 Bozeman, Mont., where he runs an Scene named Marin Miller student at Indiana University- Rebecca Daubert ad-specialty and custom imprint “Nashville’s Best Actress.” She was Bloomington, was awarded two Communications Co-Chair company called Promotions West. cast in the Tennessee Repertory Russian FLAS Fellowships and was [email protected] Thomas Allen Jones and Elizabeth Theater’s performances of Speed- elected secretary/faculty meeting 649 Fort Johnson Rd. Shaw Howard were married on the-Plow by David Mamet and I Hate representative to the Anthropology Charleston, SC 29412 November 11, 2006, in All Saints’ Hamlet by Paul Rudnick. Benjamin Graduate Student Association. Chapel. Joe Kasl graduated from Skeen worked for a year as an Ashley Tenney graduated with a John Thomas Case Western Reserve University interim youth minister at St. John’s master’s of public administration Communications Co-Chair School of Law in May 2006, and was Episcopal Cathedral and then worked from the University of South Carolina [email protected] admitted to the practice of law in for a year as a lift operator at in December 2005. She works in the Ohio in November 2006. Krystin Arapahoe Basin Ski Area in Summit marketing department at Powell Chris Brooks is enrolled in the Mas- Krause received a master’s degree in County, Colo. In August 2005, he Goldstein LLP, a law firm in Atlanta. ter of Studies in Environmental Law Latin American studies from Tulane entered law school at the University Brian Waite is assistant football program at the Vermont Law School University in the spring of 2005. She of Denver. He is on the staff of the coach at Cumberland University in in South Royalton. Mac Brown is working towards her Ph.D. in Water Law Review, the secretary of Lebanon, Tenn. His secondary duties traveled the nation after graduation, political science at the University of the Christian Legal Society, and an include recruiting coordinator and living in his truck with his labrador Notre Dame. Adam Latham received active member of the Federalist pro-liaison. He came to Cumberland retriever, Scout. He began working for an Oscar Dystel Fellowship for 2006- Society. Lamar Stanley received the after spending two years as a the Episcopal School of Knoxville in 07, as a graduate student pursuing a 2005 Strike Fighter Wing Atlantic graduate assistant coach at February 2005, and he is now the master of science in publishing at Ground Officer of the Year Award, Tennessee Tech University, where he chaplain and religion teacher, as well New York University. Adam is also an which is an honor for the best non- earned his master’s in education in as the fifth- and sixth-grade social associate at Market Partners pilot Naval officer in any hornet instructional leadership. studies teacher. He was elected to

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the Board of Trustees for the Univer- Jessica Short and George Andersen sity of the South in February 2006. He and Scout live in historic North Knoxville. Rebecca Daubert is living in Costa Rica, teaching English and working on an organic farm named Rancho Margot. Elizabeth Ford works as a sales planner at NBC Universal in New York City. Scott Knittle is a first-year student at University of Georgia Law School. Johnny Shoaf is a first-year student at Vanderbilt went abroad to London for seven University Law School. months through a program called Bunac. They were able to work in London as regular employees with a 2005 working visa; Jessica found her way J. Bradley Cherry into an Australian law firm while Communications Chair George worked for Fujitsu and then Jimmy Salter, C’04, and Mallory Dorand, C’06, were married on February 18, [email protected] Euromoney magazine. The Bunac 2006, at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Montgomery, Ala. First row: Natalie 309 Meeting St., Apt. No. 2 program is a valuable commodity to Waldon, C’06; Kara Cofer, C’06; Leslie Parnell, C’06; Katherine Kane, C’06. Charleston, SC 29401 students who are not yet ready to settle into the “real world” and who Second row: Erle J. Newton II, C’71; Hank Johnson, C’07; Brett Scheffers, C’05; Erle J. Newton III, C’05; Charles E. Jenkins, C’04; A. J. Zucchero, C’04; Lee Allen has been serving as a are hoping to travel. Scott Knittle, C’04; Brett Bares, C’03; James Mason, C’07. Third row: Matt SED (small enterprise development) Pittner, C’07; Carlton F. Carroll, C’05; Dixon Myers; Annwn Myers; Jimmy Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon, 2006 Salter, C’04; Mallory Dorand, C’06; Sallie Bennett, C’04; Rachel Riley, C’04; Africa, since June 2006. He works Liz Miller, C’04; Jen Macksoud, C’05; Will Dukes, C’03; Jay Kington, C’03. with a micro-finance institution Charles A. Odonkor was selected as Fourth row: Sam Moore, C’04; Huntley Luna, C’01; Ele Ford, C’04; Lauren called MC2 in the capacity of a small one of Omicron Delta Kappa’s 2006 Hale, C’06; Thomas Upchurch, C’05; Abbie Wehner, C’06; Elizabeth Heilig, business advisor. Additionally, he scholarship recipients. Omicron Delta C’03; Meg Little, C’07; Todd Wass, C’03; Muguet Cox, C’04; W. Day Gates III, teaches a business class and works Kappa is the National Leadership C’02; Chris Miller, C’05; and Fred Matthews, C’86. with various groups of entrepre- Honor Society that recognizes and neurs. While Cameroon is a bilingual encourages superior scholarship, country, the vast majority of his work leadership, and exemplary char- is carried out in French. With the acter. He was also selected by the help of a number of generous donors Intercollegiate Studies Institute to and energetic volunteers, Sarah participate in a yearlong program of Oxford has been assisting with the educational enrichment as a part establishment of Breaking Ground- of its Honors Fellowship Program. Cameroon, a non-profit organization Marjorie Palmer won the national Pi committed to bringing positive, sus- Sigma Alpha (Political Science Honor tainable change to communities in Society) Best Undergraduate Class need in Cameroon. Over the course Paper competition this year for her of the past year, Sarah has focused paper entitled, “Religion and Environ- her efforts on raising funds for her mentalism in America: An Analysis organization’s various philanthropic of Green Consciousness Among efforts, including the construction the Christian Right.” Drew Phillips’ of new schools and clean water middle school class collaborated on facilities in many of Cameroon’s most a 100-line poem about their experi- impoverished communities. Visit the ences as Montessori children. He is Peter Macllwaine, C’06, sent us this picture of himself; website at . includes playing the banjo for charity ler, C’06, on top of Colorado’s Sewanee Peak in summer in the art district or in downtown 2006. Peter and John were living in Telluride, and Grant Concord. Drew plans to relocate and Gilby came for a visit. “We all decided to go climb to Nashville around June. Amanda the mountain named after our alma mater,” Peter says. Anne Sanders married Charles Clay- Sewanee Peak was featured in the spring 2006 issue of ton Bradley on September 2, 2006. Sewanee magazine.

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Laura Justin, C’02, and Jacob Burgette, C’03, were married on July 8, 2006, Anne Sanders, C’06, married Clay Bradley at Christ Church Cathedral in at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Chattanooga, Tenn. Pictured are (top row) John Nashville, Tenn., on September 2, 2006. Among the alumni in attendance Hankla, C’03; Henry Oehmig, C’03; Bart Pride, C’02; Beeland Nielsen, C’04; were Rodes Fisher, C’06; Hall Carter, C’06; Catherine Avery, C’06; Russell Anne Louise Cranwell, C’03; George Lewallen, C’04; Caroline Rogers, C’04; McWhirter, C’06; Hilson Merrill, C’06; Patrick Warfield, C’06; Rhett Smith, Karl Long, C’02; Keith David Hensel, C’02; Leslie Higgins, C’00; Taylor Hall, C’06; Caroline Banta, C’06; Katie Maloomian, C’06; Adair Hendrickson, C’01; Hayley Hardin Brown, C’03; Matthew Pynch, C’01; Stephanie Bahn C’06; Susannah Smith, C’06; Alex Hancock, C’06; Ashley Logsdon, C’07; Weiler, C’02; Kat Petracek, C’03; Amy Robertson, C’04; Joe Currie, C’98; Liz Gilliam, C’06; Catherine Alley, C’06; Will Pollard, C’05; Ted Smith, C’06; Mauricio Papapietro, C’01; Brian Lynn, C’02; Jessica Hogle, C’02; Charles Thomas Farmer, C’06; Matt Phelan, C’06; Catherine Bass, C’06; Thomas Harbin, C’02; James Fox, C’03; Greg Leveridge, C’02; Horry Parker, C’02; Jackson, C’06; Paul Johnson, C’06; Ann Marie Turpen, C’06; Caroline Gabe Goldstein, standing in for his deceased brother, Robert Goldstein, C’02; Harrison, C’07; Emorie Broemel, C’07; Katie Branch, C’07; Sarah Jones, J.T. Metrailer, C’04; Paul Roper, C’02; Oliver Drose, C’02; (middle row) Robert C’07; Lea Peck, C’07; Nelson Byrd, C’03; George Lewallen, C’04; David Chapman, C’04; Owen Reed, C’02; Matthew Stiegel, C’02; Claire Hardin, Barnes, C’05; Whitney Stice Barnes, C’06; Leigh Turner, C’06; Liz Stringer, C’02; Jacob; Laura; Lee Shook, C’02; Darby Hendrix Currie, C’02; Lauren C’03; Rachel Eason, C’03; Katie Johnson Reljac, C’00; Thad Thompson, C’98; Nowell, C’02; Trapper Pendleton, C’01; Cas Sochacki, C’01; David Snow, Walter Merrill, C’70; Morgan VanZandt Merrill, C’73; Pete Stringer, C’71; C’01; (bottom row) Ben Miles, C’01; Simon Hodshon, C’02; Brian Boehm, Bella Katz Stringer, C’73; and Greer Edwards Broemel, C’73. C’02; Raymond Swetenburg, C’02; Dave Rudolph, C’05; Will Grant, C’02; Peter Barr, C’03; Blake Vaden, C’02; and Kyle Warren, C’02.

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heodore Roosevelt died of those who also love horse and fine and fitting tribute, and Red Ton January 6, 1919, and rifle and the winds that blow liked the idea. son Archie sent a one-sentence across lonely plains and through His capacity for friendship telegram to his brother Kermit the gorges of the mountains.” and his intellectual vigor and that read “The old lion is dead.” The academic and intellectual honesty are evident in the variety And today we can say that per- achievements of Robert Lan- of those who sought his company Robert S. Lancaster, historic leader haps the last of Sewanee’s old caster, who did so much for the and his advice during the last of the University of the South, died February 21 after a long battle with lions is dead, and many in this University of the South, are well years of his life. Confined to Parkinson’s disease. He was ninety- community sense that the death known, and they do not need his home by long illness, he and seven years of age and had been a of Robert S. Lancaster is a mo- to be rehearsed here. But any Elizabeth offered generous hos- deeply valued mentor and friend for mentous event that marks more consideration of his life and pitality to everyone. Nearly every many Sewanee students, alumni, and colleagues for more than seventy-five than the end of a good man’s life. achievements would miss the afternoon for many years they years. From his arrival at the Sewanee mark without recalling that he welcomed visitors of all kinds, Military Academy in 1931 until grew up in rural Virginia in the countrymen and intellectuals, his retirement from teaching in early years of the last century and soldiers and scholars, judges the college in 1979 and even in was a woodsman and a hunter all and vice chancellors. Beautiful the long years of his retirement of his life. He began hunting as a women sang in the living room he served the University of the boy, and he was still an impres- overlooking Lost Cove, and the South in many ways and with sive wing shot into his 80s. He children of former students gave deep affection. His titles and loved hunting, but he loved the violin recitals to the delight of all. offices included Professor of company of other hunters more. Occasionally song was required Political Science, Dean of the His personal and professional of non-musical old men with College, and Director of Devel- behavior and his expectations of less pleasant results. Some were opment. He was devoted to this others were formed by the rural more regular members of the University and did well whatever and woodland ethic of cour- large group that became known he was asked to do for her sake. age and prudence, civility and as the Red Army than others, Some remember the Red Dean honor that was an essential part but all were powerfully drawn to and tremble. Many who were of his character. You can tell a Red’s principled vision and his his students became lifelong lot about a man’s character by humane sanity. Some traveled friends. Many have come today watching the way he shoots and great distances to consult Rob- to pay their respects and say the way he behaves in the field ert Lancaster on matters public goodbye, drawn by memory or duck blind. Wherever he was, and private, to pay their respects and by the conviction that Red Red was a gentleman, equally and to profit from his wisdom. saw the good in them and that at ease in the company of plain None was ever disappointed. his authority and his friendship country folk or in the councils He gave praise or blame without helped them to know themselves of the great, equally at home in pretense, envy, or rancor, and better and more honestly. a hunting camp or in the Re- he delighted in posing tough In African Game Trails Roosevelt gents’ Room. There was some historical and linguistic ques- wrote “I doubt whether any conversation several years ago tions for the wide assortment man takes keener enjoyment in about having Red’s pallbearers of his officially learned visitors. the wilderness than he who also carry shotguns to the burial and At times wise and well-traveled keenly enjoys many other sides fire a salute at the appropriate adults fidgeted like unprepared of life; just as no man can relish moment. It’s not going to hap- schoolboys. He loved good con- books more than some at least pen, but it would have been a versation and could be serious

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or frivolous according to the in memoriam occasion. He loved a good argument, and one usually Emmitt D. Smith, C’33, of Columbia, Wilkinson & Snowden Developments included anti-trust, utility regulation, left his company humbled S.C., died on October 16, 2006. During and chairman emeritus of Colliers estate planning, tax, commercial, and but never humiliated. As his World War II, he served in the Pacific Wilkinson Snowden. He joined the U.S. personal injury litigation. He was a illness progressed, conversa- as an infantry officer and later as a Marine Corps in 1940 and served as member of Highlands United Methodist a company commander on Guadal- Church and an avid fisherman and tion became more difficult, transportation officer in Korea, Japan, Germany, and France. At the time of canal with 2nd Battalion 8th Marines, golfer. Survivors include his wife, but visitors continued to be his retirement from the U.S. Army as a flight instructor at Naval Air Station Eugenia. welcomed by a firm hand and a a full colonel, he was the director of Pensacola, and as a flight officer with ready smile. Even through the Personnel and Administration, Atlantic VMF-121 flying close air support in the George Heckler Peck, C’43, of years of a long retirement Dean Terminal Command, in Brooklyn, N.Y. F-4 U Corsair at Bougainville, Emeru, Spokane, Wash., died on December He was inducted into the Infantry OCS and Peleliu, where he was critically 8, 2006. He enlisted in the U.S. Army Lancaster lived a full and rich Hall of Fame in 1965. For 10 years, he injured in 1944. He retired from the Air Corps during World War II, serving life devoted to his family and served as the personnel officer for the Marine Reserves in 1953 as a lieuten- as an aircraft mechanic and earning friends and to the wellbeing of National Guard of South Carolina. He ant colonel. He began his real estate his wings as a flight engineer. A native this University. was an officer in the Retired Officers’ career with Russell S. Wilkinson in of Wheeling, W.Va., he met his first 1945, and over a period of 15 years wife, Regina Jackson, while stationed Naturalist John Burroughs Association and a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity, along with Military built approximately 4,000 houses in Great Falls, Mont., and put down said of the death of his old Order of World Wars, Fort Jackson Golf throughout Memphis and Biloxi and roots out West. He worked for the Deer friend Teddy Roosevelt, “The and Officers’ Club, VFW, State Employ- Columbus, Miss. As an industrial devel- Lodge National Bank in Deer Lodge, world is bleaker and colder ees’ Association, National Sojourners, oper beginning in 1961, he focused on Mont., and then managed the branch for his absence from it.” And and the Eastminster Presbyterian land development, general contracting, of Old National Bank in Spokane Valley, Church. He was also a 32nd degree and speculative development. He was Wash. He retired in 1986. His first so do we find the world now Mason. honored by Lambda Alpha Interna- wife, Regina, died in 1979. In 1982, that Robert Lancaster has gone tional with its Lifetime Achievement he married Elva Crawford Layton, who from it. His deepest affections George Price Cooper Jr., C’36, of Award for Real Estate Development in survives him. were for domestic joys, his large Augusta, Ga., died on October 11, 1995. Always working to develop a better Memphis, he served as president J. M. Kelsey, N’45, of Bolivar, Mo., died family and his friends, the com- 2006. He worked in a brokerage business in New York City until World War II, of the Home Builders Association of on December 8, 2006. A U.S. Navy forts of hearth and home that during which he served in France as a Memphis, Memphis Uniport Associa- veteran of World War II, he worked for perhaps only the outdoorsman captain in the Army attached directly to tion, and the Downtown Association. He years in the family business, Kelsey’s fully appreciates, and because the Allied Supreme Headquarters. After also served as chairman of the Board Bologna, and was a retired U.S. Postal of the generosity and love of working for NBC radio in Savannah, of Regents of the University of the worker. He had many interests, includ- Ga., he returned home to Huntsville, South. He was a lifelong communicant ing fly-fishing and cars. He coached Peggy Price, Nancy Ward and Ala., where he founded the Boswell and of Calvary Episcopal Church and a ves- Little League baseball and was a their family, he was able to enjoy Cooper Insurance Agency. He retired in tryman. He loved hunting dove, duck, volunteer fireman. He was a member those comforts until the end. 1974. Survivors include his wife, Petey. and turkey and was a true woodsman. of the First Christian Church of Bolivar. His last years were full of purga- Survivors include his wife, Florence; Survivors include his wife, Wanda. son, John Bayard Snowden, C’72; and torial suffering that he accepted Charles Franklin Pearson, C’36, of Nashville, Tenn., died on October 1, three grandchildren, including Harriet Allen Wilson Kilpatrick, C’45, of with grace and courage. We now 2006. He served as an officer in Naval O. Snowden, C’03. Stephens City, Va., died on November take comfort in the certain hope Intelligence for four years during World 30, 2006. He enlisted in the Army that he has gone home to the War II. He graduated from St. Louis Robert McDavid Smith, C’41, of during World War II, serving in Europe. mansion prepared for him in University Dental School and practiced Birmingham, Ala., died on September After the war, he earned a B.S. from dentistry in Nashville for 39 years. 11, 2006. He served as a captain in Wake Forest and entered the family his Father’s house. His sense He was a member of St. George’s the Pacific in World War II and was newspaper business. He was editor of our true home is clearly ex- Episcopal Church. Survivors include his awarded the Bronze Star. He graduated and general manager of the Brunswick pressed in this sentence from wife, June. from the University of North Carolina Times Gazette from 1952 to 1966. He the memorial he wrote for his and received his law degree from the retired from the production department University of Alabama, where he was of the Washington Post, and he and friend Andrew Lytle: “When George N. Wagnon, A’35, C’39, of Anchorage, Alaska, died on August 4, first in his class. He later received an his wife, Mary Lois, co-published the my ghost finally slips away, I 2006. A retired physician and surgeon, L.L.M from Harvard University. He had Fredericksburg Times magazine in the shall go seeking his company, he was a member of Sigma Nu at a long and distinguished career with 1980s. He was also an enthusiastic and, at the hearth where every Sewanee. the firm of Lange, Simpson, Robinson, aviator and owner of cairn terriers. chill grows warm, we will listen and Somerville and was known for his Robert G. Snowden, A’35, C’40, H’76, ability to handle matters in all fields John F. Scott Jr., C’45, of Bellaire, together to the music of the of Memphis, Tenn., died on Decem- of the law. He argued cases before the Tex., died on October 31, 2006. He heavenly pack in full cry.” ber 13, 2006. He was president of U.S. Supreme Court and his practice attended Sewanee and the University

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of Houston. During World War II, he He was active in volunteer work with include his wife, Kathaleen. United Methodist Church of Bullard. He proudly served his country with the Meals on Wheels and pet therapy taught the Fellowship Sunday School 15th Army Air Corps division in Europe. programs, and he was a member of Earl Beal Guitar Jr., C’51, of Abilene, class for 19 years, and he was also an He later owned and operated General the First Presbyterian Church. In 1996, Tex., died on January 2, 2007, in active member of the United Methodist Automotive Service for 20 years. Known he was named Volunteer of the Year for London, England. He was an econom- Men. He served as interim pastor of for his honesty and his sense of humor, Greenville County. Survivors include his ics major at Sewanee, the sports Noonday UMC and as chaplain and re- he loved the outdoors and his family. wife of 57 years, Charlotte. editor of the Sewanee Purple and of cruiter for Lon Morris College. Survivors Survivors include his wife, Frances. the Cap and Gown, and a member include his wife, Patsy. Robert Lyle Rice, C’49, of Hilton Head of Phi Delta Theta. He also attended John Stuart Collier, C’47, of Memphis, Island, S.C., died on September 28, Stanford University and received a J.D. Eugene Bullard III, C’54, of Hot Tenn., died on October 9, 2006. During 2006. He was a member of Sigma from the University of Texas. He served Springs, Ark., died on October 22, World War II, he served in the South Alpha Epsilon at the University, and he in the U.S. Navy during the Korean 2006. He was the secretary-treasurer of Pacific as an ensign in the U.S. Navy. served in the U.S. Army after gradua- War, attaining the rank of lieutenant Cruzen Equipment Co. in Memphis for Afterward, he resumed his education at tion. Following his discharge from the commander. For 30 years, he worked 25 years. He served as 2nd Lieutenant the University, where he was a member Army, he moved to Indianapolis, where for Phillips Petroleum, beginning as a in the U.S. Air Force and was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and the Red he joined Stokely-Van Camp Inc. as staff attorney and eventually serving as of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. Ribbon Society. He joined his brother a regional sales manager. He retired managing director of the Exploration and father in the Collier Insurance in 1984 as senior vice president and and Production Division for Europe and John Cummings Hodgkins, C’54, of Company. During his 48 years in the president of the U.S. Grocery Products Africa. He traveled the world in this job, Pensacola, Fla., died on October 11, business, he served as president of the Group, which included Gatorade. After which included establishing the Cochin 2006. He served a tour of duty in the Insurors of Memphis and the Insurors retiring, he moved to Hilton Head Refinery in India and the company’s U.S. Coast Guard during the Korean of Tennessee. He was a leader in civic Island, where he became publisher first European office in Belgium, then War, finishing his Sewanee education organizations including LeBonheur of Islander Magazine. He spent over moving it to London. Later in life, he in 1959. He was a former news editor Children’s Hospital, Youth Service USA, 20 years on the beach and the golf joined his father, Earl Guitar Sr., C’24, at the Pensacola News Journal and a and Youth Service Memphis. An active courses of Hilton Head. His wife, and his brother Phillip in the family’s member of Christ Episcopal Church, the communicant of Calvary Episcopal Jane, preceded him in death in 1996 ranching and oil business in Abilene. Jazz Society of Pensacola, and the Flor- Church, he served on the vestry, as after more than 40 years of marriage. Survivors include his wife of 43 years, ida Trails Association. Survivors include president of the Loyalty League, and Survivors include his brother, Louis W. Maggie; and five children, including his wife, Nancy; and his children, Jack; as co-chairman of the Every Member Rice Jr., C’50. Sandy Guitar Wallis, C’90. Mary; Martha Jane Hodgkins, C’85; Canvas. In recent years, he became Margaret A. “Peggy” Hodgkins, C’88; the driving force within Kairos Prison Smith Hempstone, C’50, H’69, of Stanley Gordon Jones, C’51, of and Charles Henry Hodgkins, C’94. Ministry. Survivors include his wife, Washington, D.C., died on November Sanibel Island, Fla., died on November Louise; and four children, including 19, 2006. He was a noted journalist 19, 2006. He enlisted in the Army William Webb White, C’54, of Cary, John Stuart Collier Jr., C’77. and the outspoken former U.S. ambas- and served in the Philippines before N.C., died on September 12, 2006. He sador to Kenya. He served in the Marine entering the University of the South, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at the Samuel Harwell Howell, C’49, of Corps during the Korean War, then where he belonged to the Kappa Alpha University, where he also played four Nashville, Tenn., died on October 19, spent several years in Africa as a fellow fraternity. He attended graduate school years of tennis and varsity basketball 2006. He enlisted in the Army Air of the Institute of Current World Affairs. at Washington University in St. Louis and was active in Alpha Tau Omega so- Force in 1943 and was trained to fly He then became Africa correspondent and held various management posi- cial fraternity and Omicron Delta Kappa P-51s during World War II. He studied for the Chicago Daily News and wrote tions in the hospital industry. He retired honorary leadership fraternity. He was French at Laval University in Quebec two well-received books about Africa. from the Hospital Management Corpo- selected as a Rhodes Scholar, studying before traveling through Western He won a Nieman fellowship at Harvard ration. He served on the vestry of St. at Magdalen College, Oxford University. Europe with Sewanee friends in 1948. University and wrote two novels, then Michael’s Episcopal Church on Sanibel Upon returning to Alabama, he served He returned to France a year later to went on to work as a reporter for the Island. Survivors include his wife, as an officer in the U.S. Air Force and work for American Express. There, he Washington Star and as newsroom Patricia; three sons; and his brothers, in the Air Force Reserves. He moved to met Jean Walker, whom he married in editor for the Washington Times. Most James I. Jones, C’53, and John Thomas Cary, N.C., in 1972 and worked for the Paris in March 1951. They returned to importantly, Smith was credited with Jones, C’61. Environmental Protection Agency until the United States to raise a family in helping usher multiparty elections into his retirement in 1989. He was an avid Belle Meade, where Howell managed Kenya, a country that had little toler- Cecil D. Harper Jr., C’52, of Bul- tennis player who won many tourna- his own insurance agency. In 1976, ance for political dissent. While serving lard, Tex., died on August 31, 2006. ments throughout the South. Survivors he married Virginia Rankin Robinson, as U.S. ambassador to Kenya from He finished his bachelor’s degree at include his wife, Corinne. who preceded him in death in 2004. 1989 to 1993, he denounced eco- Tennessee Tech and earned a Master He was active in St. George’s Episcopal nomic corruption and advocated the of Divinity from the Perkins School John Levi Tipton, C’56, of Asheville, Church. end of political dominance by longtime of Theology at Southern Methodist N.C., died on December 7, 2006. He ruler Daniel arap Moi and his Kenya University. He served in both the Korean served four years in the Air Force before Lester Strawn Parr, C’49, of Taylors, African National Union. Finally, after and Vietnam conflicts as a chaplain, earning his B.S. in economics from S.C., died on December 19, 2006. He increasing condemnation from abroad, earning the rank of commander. He Sewanee. His career included associa- graduated from the University after Kenya held free elections in late 1992. also served in the Antarctic with Opera- tion with Wachovia Bank and Trust Co., serving in the Army in Europe during Former Secretary of State Lawrence tion Deep Freeze and was the national Charles Jenkins Realty Co., Town and World War II. He worked for U.S. Steel Eagleburger described Smith, who titled chaplain for the Old Antarctic Explorers Country Realty, and J. D. Jackson & As- Supply in Boston, but spent most of his memoirs The Rogue Ambassador Association. He earned a Purple Heart, sociates. He served as president of the his career with Edgcomb Metals in (University of the South Press, 1998), among many other awards. For seven Asheville Board of Realtors and worked Greenville, S.C. He retired in 1986. as “a man of real courage.” Survivors years, he served as the pastor of First for Buncombe County from 1987 to

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1999. He was a longtime member of October 9, 2006. He was ordained a graduate of the University of Tennessee Best known for his astute political Central United Methodist Church. He priest in 1971 and served in parishes as well as of the Sewanee School of reporting, he knew and interviewed was also a classically trained pianist over a 25-year span in Birmingham (St. Theology, and he served as a combat many world leaders, including every who would attract a crowd whenever he Mary’s-on-the-Highland, Grace Church), infantry officer during World War II. president since Lyndon B. Johnson. As sat down to play his favorite up-tempo Huntsville (St. Stephen’s), and Mentor, The focus of his life and ministry were the Times’ London bureau chief from blues rhythms. Survivors include his Ohio (St. Andrew’s). He retired from peace, justice, and reconciliation. 1976 to 1985, he not only wrote about wife of 55 years, Carolyn. the Episcopal ministry in 1996 and He was active in peace initiatives major political events but also traveled was received into the Catholic Church nationally and internationally, including widely and wrote about food, wine, and Harry Tucker Edwards Jr., C’57, of in 1998. At the time of his death, he the House of Hope in Israel and the architecture. His books on travel and New Bern, N.C., died on December 13, was a program acquisitions manager Washington Cooperation Circle. He was restaurants, Apple’s Europe and Apple’s 2006. After graduating from Sewanee for EWTN Global Catholic Network. also one of the founders of Episcopal America, were widely praised. He was a with a bachelor of arts, he served in the Survivors include his wife, Lee. Caring Response to AIDS and the recipient of an Emmy in the 1960s for Air Force for five years. He remained Georgetown Senior Center. He served his work on NBC’s The Huntley-Brinkley in the reserves until 1995. Survivors Susan Suarez Brown, C’88, of as honorary chaplain to the British Report, the Overseas Press Club Award include his wife, Frances. Sewanee, Tenn., died on November 25, Embassy in Washington, even hosting in 1968 for his coverage of the Vietnam 2006. The granddaughter of Jane Jane- Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip War, and the Lowell Thomas Award. Frank T. Richardson III, C’60, of way of Sewanee, Brown had recently during a visit to the National Cathedral. Survivors include his wife, Betsey. Huntsville, Ala., died on December relocated to Sewanee from Boston with Survivors include his wife, Mary. 9, 2006. He attended Sewanee and her husband, Doug Edward Brown, Athens College and graduated from C’87, and children Harrison (7th grade) Robert (Bobby) Alan Friedrich, C’77, Faculty and Staff the University of Mississippi. He was a and Callie (4th). died unexpectedly January 12, 2007. member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He Born in Paterson, N.J., April 28, 1953, Johnnie Reed Green, of Sewanee, served in the Army in Germany and ran Verna Josephine Dozier, H’89, of Bobby grew up in West Palm Beach, Tenn., died on November 12, 2006. his own medical sales business for 20 Mitchellville, Md., died on September Fla. and Warner Robins, Ga. He began She was an employee of the University years. He was a ham radio operator, a 1, 2006. She was an English literature a career in the property and casualty for many years, serving at the Sewanee hunter, and a photographer. Survivors teacher at the high school level and business in 1978. After moving to Union Theater, Sandwich Shop, and du- include his wife, Charlotte. a noted Episcopal religious educator. Mobile in 1983, he joined Roberts Pont Library. In more recent years, she She received her B.A. in English from Brothers, Inc., as risk manager, and was a volunteer at the Hospitality Shop. Clay Ewing, C’61, of Greenwood, Miss., Howard University in 1937 and an M.A. following a merger in 1992, became She and her husband, Albert, operated died on November 23, 2006. He was a in English literature in 1938. Her first owner and principal of Roebuck- the Motor Mart on University Avenue. retired radio station owner and the for- career was dedicated to the public Roberts Brothers Insurance Agency. mer mayor of Greenwood, 1973–77. In schools in Washington, D.C., including His knowledge of leveraged buyouts Patrick Riley Harrison died on Novem- his later years, he traveled internation- teaching and administrative work for and mergers and acquisitions led to ber 13, 2006. He was an employee of ally exporting industrial machinery. He the Washington Board of Education for several entrepreneurial ventures in the the Sewanee Military Academy from was a member of the Episcopal Church 34 years. She retired early and started U.S. In 2001, he formed The Friedrich 1945 until 1953, a University employee of the Nativity in Greenwood. her second career as a freelance Company, specializing in commercial from 1966 until 1970, and again from consultant in Bible study and the insurance and risk services. Bobby 1975 until his retirement in 1991. James Harvey Trousdale III, C’61, of ministry of the laity in the Episcopal was an active member of Dauphin Way Monroe, La., died on November 13, Church, which she joined in the 1950s. United Methodist Church, where he Gladys M. Waggoner, of Decherd, 2006. A former longtime resident She taught classes and served on the served the youth program as a Sunday Tenn., died on September 6, 2006. She of Beaumont, Tex., he was a lifelong vestry of St. Mark’s on Capitol Hill for school teacher. He also was active on worked in the Development Office from Episcopalian who served the church as years, besides speaking and teach- the Christian Business Men’s Commit- 1961 to 1983 and oversaw gift records, acolyte, lay reader, and sub-deacon. He ing nationally and internationally. She tee (CBMC). He is remembered for the biographical files, and the mailroom. pursued a career in the transportation wrote several books, including How I support he provided to his friends and Before her retirement, she also helped industry, becoming principal founder Read the Bible (1986) and The Dream family, and his love of fishing and the in the transition from hard-copy docu- and first president of both the New of God: A Call to Return (1991). In water. He is survived by his wife of 27 mentation to computerization. Orleans and East Texas chapters of the 2003, she received the first Bishop’s years, Elizabeth (Beth) Roberts Fried- National Railway Historical Society as Award in the Diocese of Washington rich, daughters Louise Roberts Friedrich well as director of the national organi- for extraordinary contributions to the and Elizabeth Alan Friedrich. zation. He also served in the U.S. Army. diocese. She received two honorary His passions in life included his church, doctorates: a Doctor of Humane Letters R. W. Apple Jr., H’04, of Washington, railway transportation, and fine foods from the Protestant Episcopal Seminary D.C., died on October 4, 2006. Over a and spirits. in Virginia, and a Doctor of Divinity from career of more than 40 years, he es- the University of the South. tablished himself as one of the nation’s Hubert Frederick Fisher III, C’62, of leading journalists, a Renaissance man Memphis, Tenn., died on September Sanford Garner Jr., T’52, H’95, of among reporters who brought historical 7, 2006. He was a retired senior busi- Washington, D.C., died on September perspective and a literary touch to his ness applications advisor for Federal 30, 2006. A former rector of Christ explanations of the issues of the day. Express. Survivors include his wife, Episcopal Church in Georgetown and A native of Akron, Ohio, he received Alexandra. later interim provost of Washington a bachelor’s degree from Columbia National Cathedral, he was considered University. He worked for NBC News Charles Edward “Ned” South, C’69, “a model of how important a priest and the Wall Street Journal before T’70, of Birmingham, Ala., died on can be in the modern world.” He was a joining the New York Times in 1963.

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Beyond the Gates

B y k A T y b O s s e , C ’ 0 7 On the drive from Atlanta to Sewanee, and find my lost sense of purpose. about 20 miles before I merge from I-75 It didn’t take long for the University to North onto I-24 West, the road curves over provide me with a solution. One day, in a a ridge of the Cumberland Plateau and much-needed break from verb conjuga- winds its way back down toward Chatta- tion, my Spanish professor presented the nooga. On that small rise, green mountains department’s summer program of studying well up on the horizon like the shoulders of for two weeks in Madrid and then hiking camouflaged giants, rippling the sky’s elec- a thousand-year-old pilgrimage across tric blue. That ridge marks the spot where northern Spain. It was a way to travel I first realize I’m coming home. far outside the gates, but still take a little Of course, Sewanee isn’t the home of piece of the Mountain along with me. Two my childhood; in fact, it’s a far cry from months after I filled out the application, I the flat urban landscape of south Atlanta, was across an ocean wide enough to drown where orange construction barrels seem to any amount of confusion. be rooted and growing in the asphalt. My To truly describe the Road to Santiago anticipation builds until I reach those great would take numerous books of literature, stone pillars, tap the roof of my car, and history, art, religion, and philosophy. Try feel comforted by knowing I’m back in the to think of it as a combination of the Ap- protection of the Domain. palachian Trail and a pilgrimage to Mecca. Ever since my sophomore year, I have The Camino de Santiago began in the early felt connected to that stretch of Interstate ninth century, when a hermit with super- where I see the mountains for another rea- natural guidance discovered the body of St. son besides the promise of the stone gates. James in a cave in Galicia, in the northwest Each time I drive over that ridge, in my of Spain. The faithful began flocking to the mind I’m no longer in southern Tennes- site, establishing footpaths from all over see, but on top of a much higher mountain, Spain, France, and Portugal. Each sum- deep in the north of Spain. Thousands of mer, Sewanee students walk 240 miles of miles away, the landscape is breathtakingly the pilgrimage, beginning in Roncesvalles, similar, from the giant green mountains, near the French border, and ending in to the bright blue sky, to the waves of thick, Santiago on the feast day of St. James. rolling fog. I did not know what I was getting my- I signed up for the Sewanee Summer in self into. For three weeks, I hiked 15-25 Spain program mostly to avoid a summer miles a day. My whole body ached in ways job as a waitress and the concrete wonder- I didn’t know were possible. Every day land of Atlanta. But, as my freshman year ended, however, in a tiny Spanish town wound down, I also found myself searching with a friendly bartender (a trait valued for something that had gotten lost in the by all Sewanee students, young and old), whirlwind of Greek life, classes, trips to and long conversations. Most of us hiked Wal-Mart, and pub food: my direction. I alone; so, when we regrouped at the end needed to clear my head of its internal fog of each day, we spent our time together

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recounting the day’s adventures, the people sense of direction on a pilgrimage, or even A threatening sky adds color to the scenery along the we met, or the number of times someone that I learned the valuable lesson of life as route of El Camino de Santiago in Spain. laughed at our Spanish. Every morning we a journey. I did not gain all the answers by pulled ourselves from a different hotel bed, standing on those mountains in Galicia. hoped our hand-washed clothes had dried But I did learn about my own Mountain. I overnight, and began again. learned about following my particular path Each day brought new and interesting over that Mountain, and about making the experiences. There was the day I discov- experience my own. All of my fellow pil- ered Saint Christopher, the patron saint grims walked the same path every day, but of travelers, and learned that there is no in the end we each told a different story. I harm in having a little faith. There was the returned to Sewanee with the knowledge moment I quit caring about the stares of that the Mountain is different for every- other travelers and started singing to my- one; the same path will not lead us to the self to pass the time. There were days when same place. The best part of Sewanee, as on everyone cried or yelled or got lost. There the pilgrimage, is when we all sit together were days when we laughed so hard at din- at the end of the day and tell our stories, ner we couldn’t breathe. One cloudy day, revealing how the same path changed us all we even came across an old hippie dressed in different ways. as a medieval Knight Templar, performing Every time I drive over that ridge on a Masonic ritual. I-75, I’m in Galicia all over again. I’m There were nights spent in a monastery, following the road stretched in front of a vineyard, a castle, and a hostel above a bar. me, with nothing behind me but the road There were days that ended with showers I’ve already conquered. Returning to the that worked, and days with showers that Mountain, my Mountain, the community didn’t. Some days were spent in endless of Sewanee, will always be returning home. talking, where I learned all there was to But I understand that this is just one step know about someone else and discussed on my pilgrimage, just one more mountain the deeper questions in life. Some days that will change me forever as it disappears passed in silence. into already well-traveled road. It would be a cliché to say I found my

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On the cover: A scene from one of the narthex windows in All Saints’ Chapel illustrates the early planning for the site of the Domain. On this page: (Left to right) Convocation Hall and Breslin Tower, Walsh Memorial Hall, and the Elmore Boarding House, ca. 1900. Editor Susan Blettel Magazine Advisory Council Send address changes to: School of Theology’s Master of Divinity program, Associate Editors Pamela Byerly and Alumni Members: Julian Bibb, C’97; Jack Hitt, Office of University Relations where preference is given to individuals of the Margaret McCall, C’08 C’79; Paige Parvin, C’93; Rondal K. Richardson, 735 University Avenue, Sewanee, TN 37383-1000 Episcopal faith and except for those employment Graphic Designer Susan Blettel C’91, Associated Alumni Vice President for Phone: 800.367.1179 positions where religious affiliation is a necessary Class Notes Editors Mary Blount, C’80; Rachael Communications; John Sullivan, C’97; Jennie E-mail: [email protected] qualification). The University of the South Snow, C’08, Catherine Ann Whelchel, C’10 Goodrum Turrell, C’93 complies with the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Title IX Photographers Susan Askew, Woodrow Blettel, of the Educational Amendments of 1972, the Paul O’Mara, Pradip Malde, Jim Peters, Tom Faculty/Staff Members: Virginia Ottley Craighill, I.R.S. Anti-Bias Regulation, Section 504 of the Sanders, Maurice Taylor, Charley Watkins, C’82, Visiting Assistant Professor of English; Jett M. Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans Lawson Whitaker, C’73. Fisher, C’79, Executive Director of the Associated The University of the South does not discriminate Sewanee is published quarterly by the University Alumni; Karen Kuers, Associate Professor of in employment, the admission of students, or with Disabilities Act. The Provost of the University of the South, including the College of Arts and Forestry and Geology; Christopher McDonough, in the administration of any of its educational of the South, Ms. Linda Bright Lankewicz, 735 Sciences and the School of Theology, and is dis- Associate Professor of Classical Languages; Gayle policies, programs, or activities on the basis of University Avenue, Sewanee TN, 37383-1000, tributed without charge to alumni, parents, faculty, McKeen, Associate Professor of Political Science; race, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual 931-598-1000, is the person responsible for students, staff and friends of the University. Robert W. Pearigen, C’76, Vice President for orientation, age, disability, veteran/reserve/ coordinating the University’s effort to comply with © Copyright 2007, Sewanee. All rights reserved. University Relations. national guard status, or religion (except in the these laws. vicevice chancellor’schancellor’s corner corner viewpoints

Dear Sewanee Alumni and Friends,

Last winter I received a gracious invitation to give a lecture this summer at the Monteagle Assembly, in its 125th year. I was honored, and I promptly agreed to speak on the topic: “What’s Worth Learning?” That seemed fine in February, but by late June, the need to get my act together began to chafe a bit. The talk was scheduled for July 11, and I was still trying to string it together on the eve of the Fourth of July, when Trudy and I, along with Regent Bishop of East Tennessee Charles vonRosenberg, his wife Annie and several Chattanooga friends, were guests at a lovely dinner party at the home of Kitty and Hacker Caldwell on Lookout Mountain above Chattanooga. The yearlong celebration of The University of the South’s 150th anniversary was to begin the next morning with a service at The Church of the Good Shepherd, 150 years to the day after the gathering of Southern Episcopal bishops, priests, and laymen on the brow of that mountain to establish the University. In a bow to a different Sewanee tradition, the dinner-party guests were getting a jump on the official festivities. During the party, I got to talking with Fox Johnston, C’87. As a Sewanee student, Fox was befriended by the famed writer and teacher Andrew Lytle, whose home in the Assembly was a legendary site of literary reflection and of Southern hospitality marked by memorable toasts offered with silver Jefferson cups. Scrambling for help with my lecture assignment, I asked Fox what Mr. Lytle might have said about what’s worth learning. His answer was that what Mr. Lytle most wanted to know about anyone who interested him was the story of the person’s family. Fox said, “Mr. Lytle didn’t like the modern focus on ‘What do you do?’ He wanted to know: ‘Where do you come from?’ ‘Who are your people?’ and ‘Who are you?’” I recounted Fox’s memories of Mr. Lytle’s views in my Assembly talk, and used them as an excuse to tell a few of my own family stories, but what I want mainly to note here is how the Sesquicentennial year that has just begun will honor Mr. Lytle’s values. Again and again throughout the year, we will be addressing these questions for the University: “Where do we come from?” “Who are our people?” and “Who are we?” And, even as we look back, pondering these important questions, we will also be looking ahead to where we want to go and who we want to be in the future. Through the great vision and hard work of many, many Sewanee people, the celebration is already well begun. Harking back to both 1857 and 1957, the July Fourth worship service at The Church of the Good Shepherd on Lookout Mountain was a splendid beginning; Bishop vonRosenberg officiated, and Chancellor Henry Parsley gave a moving address that celebrated the vision of the University’s founders and Sewanee’s unique character and gifts to the world – past, present, and future. Just after the service, a team of 22 cyclists, including University faculty, staff, students, and alumni made the grueling bike ride from Lookout Mountain to the Mountain to deliver an 1857 American flag to be a part of the bigger-than-ever Sewanee Fourth of July parade. Over the year ahead, the devoted work of the University’s Sesquicentennial Committee, chaired by Kenan Professor of History Charles Perry, will bring us many more special opportunities for reflection and celebration. A high point will come on Founders’ Day — Tuesday, Oct. 9 — when the University’s trustees and regents will participate in the festivities, and Jon Meacham, C’91, regent and editor of Newsweek will be the Founders’ Day orator. Happy 150th to us all. As the 22 cyclists shouted out lustily at the beginning of their strenuous ride on the Fourth of July: Yea, Sewanee’s Right!

P.S. For those who would like to listen to or read Chancellor Parsley’s wonderful July Fourth address, you can find it, along with the notes I used for that talk at the Monteagle Assembly and a list of the generous members who have served thus far on the University’s Sesquicentennial Committee at http://www2.sewanee.edu/ communications/sewaneetalks, or, if you are not a web user, please drop me a note so that we can respond by mail.

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editor’s note

ver the past few months I have been privileged to be Sewanee lection for a story about the boarding houses and matrons at the Omagazine’s “editor-between-editors.” It has been a joy to University; former vice chancellor Sam Williamson was excited examine the University from an editorial viewpoint as well as from to discover a little-known aspect of Bishop Gailor’s life. Sarah my usual one as graphic designer. It’s also been a trip down memory Steffner, C’94, former Sewanee editor (when she was Sarah Metzgar) lane in more ways than one: not only is the focus of this issue on a contributed our lead story about changes in the art of teaching, and few of the many episodes in Sewanee’s grand 150-year history, but in Theologia, Don Armentrout looks back at the life of William in working on the issue I relived memories of my tenure as editor Porcher DuBose. of my alma mater’s alumni publication over 20 years ago. Other contributors to Sewanee stepped up to the plate offering Sewanee’s former editor Laura Barlament left in January and is ideas and writing: Susan Askew, C’86, Jay Fisher, C’79, Tom Sand- enjoying the paved avenues of New York City as much as she did the ers, Peg Palisano, Pratt Paterson, Rob Pearigen, C’76, Jerry Smith, earthen trail down Shakerag Hollow, one of her favorite hikes. and students Rachael Snow, C’08, and Cat Whelchel, C’10. Our new editor, Buck Butler, C’89, returns to Sewanee after Sewanee’s summer intern Margaret McCall, C’08, got more than many years of city life in Savannah, Ga. He and his wife Sarah, will she bargained for when she accepted our offer of an internship only introduce their two girls to life in a small town — a new experience to have it turn into an associate editorship. You can see her writing for them. Butler takes up the reins of Sewanee magazine with the next and research throughout this issue. issue. He comes to the University after 15 years at Scuba Diving Magazine. As always, Pamela Byerly monitored the work being done, read Butler, who was a writer long before he was a scuba diver, worked everything several times, made suggestions and corrections, and in various capacities for the magazine including associate editor, gently guided our student writers through their responsibilities with managing editor, and editor. class notes, obituaries, and research. In the meantime this magazine-between-editors has come to- All of these dedicated professionals and students are passionate gether with the help of many who have contributed talent and time, about sharing Sewanee’s many stories with you. We hope you enjoy in a clear example of the “Sewanee Way.” them. Annie Armour, C’77, university archivist, delved into her col- — Susan Blettel from our readers

hidden treasure ter speaking with Tom Watson (then vice president of University When glancing at the spring issue of Development) that morning, my father committed to pay for the Sewanee magazine, I immediately rec- cleaning and proper conservation of the print and it was sent to ognized the Audubon Winter Hawk print Atlanta for preservation. on the cover. Upon reading the article, My father was thrilled to find and save an Audubon original for I realized that the magazine had lost an Sewanee, and our family is so pleased that the University recognizes it opportunity to tell a great story about that as an important part of the Sewanee collection. You never know what piece — the story of how my father, Dr. potential is hiding out at Sewanee. Perhaps there are other treasures James E. Key of Houston, discovered a that might find their ultimate home at the University as well. hidden piece of history. Courtney Key Tardy, C’93 In his second term as trustee, he stayed in a room on the up- Houston, Texas per floor of Rebel’s Rest. Dad noted the old print hanging in the upstairs hallway. When he looked at the date of the gift to Sewanee Correction: In the article written by John Daniel Tilford, Enduring (1933) and noted the type of paper, he surmised that this print was Visions: Treasures from the University’s collections illustrate a tradition of cultural phi- an original Audubon. My father and mother have collected Audu- lanthropy, Dr. James E. Key’s name was mis-identified twice. Tilford, bons for years and my father is also a collector of antique maps. and the editorial staff ofSewanee , regret the error. No one at Sewanee seemed to know that the print existed. Af- Continued

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Remembering Dean Lancaster I was saddened to read of the death of Dean Lancaster. Four years ago I had the opportunity to visit with him and convey to him how much he influenced and advanced my life. The following is a true story. Late in the fall of 1961, our senior year, my roommate Landis Turner and I began to panic, recognizing that four wonderful years as undergraduates would be coming to an end — if we were lucky enough to graduate in the spring of 1962. Being unwilling to consider going to work for a living upon graduating, we thought about the possibility of going to law school. As a result, we visited Dean Lancaster and sought his advice on this matter. He thought our idea of going to law school was a “grand idea” and asked if we had considered Vanderbilt Law School. The fact of the matter is that we had barely considered going to law school, let alone what law school. He immediately advised that while we were in his office, why didn’t he call his friend, Dean John Wade of the Vanderbilt Law School, and determine what Dean Wade thought of our inquiry. In our presence, he spoke with Dean Wade on the telephone and Dean Robert Lancaster, the source of many fond Sewanee memories, works in his advised that he — Red Lancaster — had two eminently qualified seniors office in this photo from the 1962Cap & Gown yearbook. who desired to become first-year law students at Vanderbilt University School of Law commencing in the fall of 1962. After several more minutes of telephone chit-chat, the conversation ended, and Dean Lancaster turned to us: “You both will have to take the graduate record exam” (the LSAT had not yet evolved), “but you are admitted to Vanderbilt law school starting next fall.” Write to us! How in the world, other than on blind faith, Dean Lancaster could recommend me in that I graduated from Sewanee with a 2.18 Letters should refer to material published in the magazine and include the writer’s full name, address, and telephone number. The editor reserves the cumulative GPA cannot be explained. right to determine the suitability of letters for publication and to edit them Thanks to Dean Lancaster and his obvious credibility with Dean for accuracy and length. Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the Wade, I have had a very satisfying career as a lawyer and my roommate, views of the University. Landis Turner, went on to a highly successful law career in Hohenwald, Tenn., and some years ago served as President of the Tennessee Bar Write to: Sewanee magazine Association. Office of Communications and Marketing, Yea, Sewanee’s Right! 735 University Avenue, Sewanee, TN 37383-1000 BRADFORD M. GEARINGER, C’62 E-mail: [email protected] and please put Akron, Ohio “Letter to the Editor” in the subject line.

• SEWANEE MAGAZINE • Summer 2007 viewpoints onO nthe the Mountain mountain on the mountain “I have no doubt that the future, despite all its fearful uncertainty, holds great things for us.”

william weber, C’07, c lass valedi c t o r i a n

Sewanee awards 400 degrees in commencement ceremonies University dedicates Bonds Library aledictorian William Weber praised thankful. I have no doubt that the future, V the triumphs of fellow Sewanee despite all its fearful uncertainty, holds uring com- graduates in his speech to the College of great things for us.” Dmencement Arts and Sciences commencement on May Weber, of Spooner, Wisc., graduated weekend, the Uni- 13. The class of 2007 was awarded 295 summa cum laude with honors in English. versity dedicated bachelor of arts degrees and 59 bachelor The salutatorian, Jean Anne Babin of the William Sadler of science degrees. Huntsville, Ala., graduated summa cum B o n d s L i b r a r y “You’re all an amazing group of scholars laude with honors in both political science in Gailor Hall, in and a wonderful group of human beings,” and psychology. D’Anthony Allen, of Bir- memory of the long- Weber said, “and I have no doubt that you mingham, Ala., was awarded the Algernon time Sewanee pro- will all achieve success, especially because Sydney Sullivan Prize, the most prestigious fessor. While at the you already have. Whether today marks recognition given to a graduating senior. University, Bonds the end of your formal education or not, At the School of Theology commence- taught classical lan- graduating from the University of the ment and crossing ceremony on May 11, 46 guages and literature South is a tremendous achievement and graduate degrees were awarded. and helped create one for which we should all be prideful and — Margaret McCall Sewanee’s Interdis- ciplinary Humanities Program. The Library was Professor Bill Bonds made possible by gifts from Bonds’ family, former students, and friends. These gifts helped fund the renovation of Gailor Hall as a center for language and literary studies. Doug Seiters, professor of classics, addressed the gathering, noting Professor Bonds’ courage and his love of teaching and his children and friends. “Bill Bonds was a brilliant teacher,” Seiters noted. “He had a way of getting at the real issues (the truth) and a way of making the rest of us do the same.… It is his excellence of teaching by which I believe Bill would most like to have his career remembered. His love of teaching never Nicole Loyd, associate dean for campus life, reaches out to congratulate a graduate while behind her Eric faltered.” Hartman (left), dean of students, and John Gatta, newly named dean of the college, celebrate other students —Tom Sanders as they leave the chapel after commencement.

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Class of 2011 most competitive on record

he incoming freshman class Tof 2011 has been drawn from the largest and most competitive applicant pool on record. The Office of Admission received over 2,400 applications which was an increase of 24 percent over last year. Students applied from 46 states and 30 foreign countries. It was also the most diverse group of applicants ever to apply to Sewanee with 267 multicultural students John Gatta appointed dean of college applying. The admitted pool of students was very strong academi- he University of the South has appointed John Gatta to become dean of the college cally with an average high school at the conclusion of Dean Rita Kipp’s service this summer. Vice Chancellor Joel grade point average of 3.6 and an T Cunningham made the announcement on April 18. average SAT of nearly 1300. Most “Provost Lankewicz and I are grateful to all who have given us counsel about the posi- of the commitments have been tion of Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences,” said Cunningham in his announcement gathered for a class expected to be to the community. “We have benefited from many calls, notes, and messages, and many 410 students. Over 23 percent of thoughtful discussions with faculty and staff members, and I am pleased to be able to report the class of 2011 will have a legacy the appointment of a person for whom we have found broad support.” connection to Sewanee. As is al- Professor Gatta is the associate dean of the college for faculty affairs. Since join- ways the case Sewanee has attracted ing the University in 2004, he has also served as visiting professor and Brown a well-rounded group of students Foundation Fellow teaching English, humanities, and non-departmental courses. with a multitude of extracurricular Gatta graduated maxima cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Notre Dame and leadership involvement. As and then earned his Ph.D. at Cornell University. He has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow an example, over 10% of the male and a Fulbright professor in Senegal. Beginning in 1974, he was a faculty member at the students in the class are Eagle University of Connecticut, where he served as professor of English, director of English Scouts. graduate studies, and English department head. He has also taught at the University of — David Lesesne Missouri and in South Africa. His research interests include American literature and intellectual history, environmental studies, and the interplay between religion and literary imagination. He is a beloved teacher and has published more than 50 academic articles and three well-regarded books, two of which have garnered awards. “The Regents, the Provost, and I very much appreciate Professor Gatta’s willingness to serve the University of the South as Dean and look forward to working with him in this new way,” said Cunningham.

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Church, law leaders honored at commencement services mental role in legal and legislative issues throughout Tennessee. Since 1934, he has been a partner in the law firm of Bass, Berry & Sims, PLC, which has grown to a staff of 200 lawyers working in Nashville, Knoxville, and Memphis. He served as a Tennessee House of Representatives member and Tennessee State Senator. During World War II, Bass was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army, earning a Bronze Star and three campaign stars for meritorious service. Before receiving his law degree from Harvard University, he was an active campus leader at the University of the South. Left to right: Joel Cunningham, vice chancellor; honorary degree recipients The Very Rev. Harry H. Pritchett The Very Rev. Harry H. Pritchett Jr., retired dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and James O. Bass Sr., C’31, partner in the law Jr. was the eighth Dean of the Cathedral firm of Bass, Berry & Sims and former Tennessee state legislator; and The Right Rev. Henry N. Parsley Jr., of St. John the Divine, New York City, C’70, chancellor and bishop of Alabama. before his retirement in 2001. He had ive honorary degrees were awarded the University of Tennessee in Knoxville previously served on many church and Fduring commencement weekend before earning his master of business ad- community boards of both local and na- ceremonies.The University honored The ministration degree from the University of tional organizations, including the last 10 Rt. Rev. John C. Bauerschmidt, The Rt. Pennsylvania. Benfield was the vice presi- years as a trustee of the Virginia Theological Rev. Larry R. Benfield, and The Rev. Dr. dent of commercial banking at First City Seminary. He has taught at the School of Charles L. Winters Jr. during the School National Bank in Houston, Texas, when Theology of the University of the South, of Theology commencement. Bishop he answered the call to ordained priest- Virginia Theological Seminary, and the Bauerschmidt delivered the sermon. At hood. He attended Virginia Theological General Theological Seminary in New the college baccalaureate service, honorary Seminary and became chaplain at Texas A York. Pritchett is also the author of many degrees were awarded to James O. Bass Sr., & M University. In addition to his duties books. C’31, and The Very Rev. Harry H. Pritchett as the 13th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese — Margaret McCall Jr., who preached during the service. of Arkansas, he continues to be the rector The Rt. Rev. John C. Bauerschmidt was of Christ Church in Little Rock. Benfield’s recently consecrated as the eleventh bishop many civic activities include the Down- of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. He town Partnership of Little Rock, where he is a graduate of Kenyon College, the Gen- chaired a task force on homelessness. eral Theological Seminary, and Oxford The Rev. Dr. Charles L. Winters Jr., a University. Bauerschmidt previously served faculty member of the School of Theology as a curate of All Saints’ Episcopal Church at the University of the South from 1954 to in Worcester, Mass., as priest-librarian and 1980, launched the Education for Minis- chaplain at Pusey House in Oxford, and try (EfM). This four-year program offers as rector for Christ Church in Albemarle, theological education for the laity and Left to right: The Rt. Rev. John C. Bauerschmidt, N.C. He was president of the standing continues to grow throughout the English- recently consecrated as the 11th bishop of the Epis- committee of the diocese of Louisiana and speaking world. He is a graduate of Brown copal Diocese of Tennessee; The Rev. Dr. Charles L. also a member of the executive board of the University, Virginia Theological Seminary, Winters Jr., a faculty member at Sewanee’s School diocese. In 2006, he served as a deputy to Union Theological Seminary, and General of Theology from 1954 to 1980, launched the the Episocopal General Convention. Theological Seminary. Winters has been Education for Ministry (EfM) program; The Rt. The Rt. Rev. Larry R. Benfield has en- a professor at Loyola University and Sea- Rev. Larry R. Benfield, 13th bishop of the Episcopal joyed an extensive career as a businessman, bury-Western Theology Seminary. Diocese of Arkansas and rector of Christ Church in priest, and civic leader. He graduated from James O. Bass Sr. has played an instru- Little Rock.

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“Being liberally educated brings context to a business career. The business person who lacks context is like a carpenter who lacks a blueprint.” G r e g B . B r o w n

Greg Brown Visits as Graham Executive-in-Residence

Being the father of a Sewanee fascinated with the business of medicine. alumnus (Chris Brown, C’05), He returned to school and earned an MBA Brown was familiar with the from Harvard University, working in an Sewanee community. “I am emergency room to support his family. impressed with the depth of the After Harvard, he entered the banking and students here. And the students investment world, eventually managing I met with were particularly over $1 billion in assets with Paul Capital thoughtful,” he says. Partners. He will join Cowen Healthcare He sees his visit as an ex- Royalty Partners this fall. ecutive-in-residence as an Kim Heitzenrater, director of career opportunity to contribute to services, says that having prominent busi- the concept of a broad liberal ness people like Dr. Brown on campus is arts education. “Being liber- a gift to students. “It is always comforting ally educated brings context for students to hear that they can lead a to a business career,” he says. successful life even if they don’t know what Greg Brown (center) with Nicolas Babson, C’68, director of the “The business person who interests them at this precise moment,” she Center for Applied Economics, and Mary Babson. lacks context is like a carpenter says. “This realization brings a great sense who lacks a blueprint. Colleges of relief and builds confidence.” r. Greg B. Brown was this spring’s and universities teach students how to be The Graham Executive-in-Residence DGraham Executive-in-Residence. A students for their whole lives. We remake Program was established by Henry H., Jr., successful surgeon who left medical prac- ourselves again and again.” and Diane Graham, of Jacksonville, Fla. tice to pursue a career in finance, Brown’s Brown knows the concept of a career The program provides for short-term expertise lay in the intersection of business makeover on a deeply personal level. After residencies each year and is a program of and medicine. He shared his knowledge and earning a degree from Yale University with the Center for Applied Economics, (see experience throughout his visit by attending majors in English and comparative litera- box below). classes, talking with students one-on-one ture, he earned an MD at SUNY Syracuse. For a Quicktime movie of Brown’s about career plans, and lecturing to a packed He practiced as a thoracic surgeon and lecture, go to . Brown called on the lecture audience to Hospital in Utica, N.Y., until he became — Sarah Steffner think about their daily activities as an expression of who they are. He also advocated a The Center for Applied Economics (CAE) renewal of the health care system that places the doctor and patient at the center of the The CAE was funded by a gift from Nicholas, C’68, and Mary Babson, of Chicago, in industry while encouraging competition to support of the pre-business program in the College of Arts and Sciences. The Center control skyrocketing costs. provides encouragement and advice to pre-business students, works with the Career During a classroom visit, he discussed Services Center and the economics faculty to enhance students’ internship opportu- the interplay between healthcare, business, nities, assists graduating students seeking business-related jobs, arranges and hosts and their respective ethics. “Biology, for distinguished business visitors on campus, and organizes summer programs that bring example, is not a stand-alone discipline,” students, visitors, and faculty together in conferences or workshops. he explains. “It affects real lives.” Website: .

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Guest speakers spark discussion, debate in the news

Many of Sewanee’s guest lecturers provoke ongoing Selected Media Quotes about sewanee discussion, debate and conversation. These are three of the lectures offered Easter semester. “Demanding academic standards and an expansive selection of sports programs make the University of the South an ideal NCAA Division III institution, a model of Author and scholar James Bowman posed genuine amateur athletics.” the question “Is honor dead?” for the “How Then Shall We Live?” (HTSWL) “Division III Dissension” Chattanooga Times–Free Press, series of lectures and panel discussions in June 10, 2007 February. Bowman is the American editor of The “Sewanee’s 5–4 win last week over 2003–06 national champion Emory not only Times Literary Supplement of London, a media critic, and a resident scholar at the Ethics earned the region title for the Tigers but also gave [tennis coach] Conchie Shack- and Public Policy Center. He is the author elford more wins than any coach in the school’s storied athletic history.” of Honor: a History. “Shackelford has Sewanee Record” Chattanooga Times–Free Press, Bowman’s visit coincided with the 100th May 13, 2007 anniversary of the formalization of the honor code at Sewanee. In his lecture, and later discussions, he asked students to consider the concept of honor and its function in different societies. In April a top-ranking Israeli ambassador, Also in April, V. Gene Robinson, C’69, Bowman examined manifestations Reda Mansour, addressed peace and rec- spoke in Guerry Auditorium before a group of honor both negative and positive, the onciliation issues in the troubled Middle of students from several regional colleges as influence of honor in wars and political East. Mansour is the first of two diplomats well as members of the Sewanee commu- movements, its roots and the wide-ranging who will visit the campus — one from Israel nity. The bishop of New Hampshire, the ideas of honor in various cultures today. and one from Palestine. first openly gay Episcopal bishop, is at the “Honor’s critics say it is incompatible with Mansour, a Druze, has devoted his center of a heated debate in the Episcopal the way in which most of us in progressive public life to promoting peaceful dialogue Church on clergy and sexuality. democracies wish to live our lives today,” between Arabs and Jews. Robinson was invited to campus by the he said. But, he noted, the reconciliation Internationally recognized as a dip- Gay/Straight Alliance, a student organiza- of democracy and honor, when it seemed lomat, author and peacemaker, he was tion, as the keynote speaker for the two-day to become possible for the two to coexist, appointed in August 2006, to serve as the Southeastern College Summit for Human was a “great watershed” in the history of consul general of Israel to the Southeastern Equality. honor. “Only in the West does honor have United States. During his presentation, Robinson a history,” he added, “evolving, changing Mansour is the first non-Jewish poet talked about his embrace of the Episco- and adapting, as the cultures changed — in to write in the Hebrew language only. pal Church while an undergraduate at other parts of the world, concepts of honor His short story, “Jumblat in the Negev,” Sewanee, finding it a place where he could have not changed, and have not been chal- received the Haaretz Annual Short Story ask many questions and seek answers. lenged to become something else.” Award in 1997. His election as bishop co-adjutor in The HTSWL programs include a cam- Mansour talked with students and com- June 2003 was quite “an astounding mo- pus-wide panel discussion by faculty to munity members about the Israeli and ment” Robinson said, and a moment that introduce the ideas a week before a lec- Palestinian situation, and focused largely was spiritually powerful for him. “And then ture, and a student panel discussion the on Israeli culture. this other thing happened ... the world,” he week after the presentation to examine the The other half of this lecture program, said, referring to the firestorm sparked by concepts presented. by a Palestinian diplomat, is planned for his confirmation as Bishop at the Episcopal the next academic year. General Convention in 2003.

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Students and faculty garner wide variety of scholarships, honors and awards

Latvia, Estonia, Rus- Sinica in Taipei. Joshua Harris was also sia, Belarus, Ukraine, honored with a Fulbright Scholarship, but Romania, Bulgaria, as a recipient of the Watson Fellowship he and Hungary. Benja- will use the coming year to travel and study min “Luke” Padgett of with that program. Apison, Tenn., pro- Eric Keen, C’08, of Malabar, Fla., was posed “Tales of Deep awarded a Morris K. Udall Foundation Time: Profit, Science, National Environmental Scholarship. Perception, and the He is one of 80 recipients in 2007 and Global Fossil Trade.” joins former Sewanee winners Katharine His destinations in- Wilkinson, C’06, and Natasha Cowie, clude Morocco, C’07, in receiving the prestigious award. Germany, Poland, Scholars are selected based on their com- Russia, Britain, Do- mitment to careers in the environment, minican Republic, health care or public policy, leadership Madagascar, China, potential, and academic achievement. and Mongolia. Each William Blackerby, C’09, of Birming- winner has a stipend ham, Ala., won second place in the 2007 Professors Karen Kuers and Stephen Shaver from the Forestry and Geology of $25,000 for his or Eta Sigma Phi Maurine Dallas Watkins Department congratulate graduate Luke Padgett (right), winner of a Watson her year abroad. Sight Translation Contest. Now in its 57th Fellowship, after commencement on May 13. The Fulbright year, this competition offers seven different rom Greek translation to costume de- Scholarship, sponsored by the U.S. De- examinations in classical Latin and Greek Fsign, students and faculty have recently partment of State, is the largest U.S. translation and composition. garnered a broad spectrum of awards. The international exchange program offering J. Theresa Bush, C’07, of Winchester, range of recognition is just as diverse as opportunities for students, scholars, and Tenn., received the third place award in the the recipients, with each award reflect- professionals to undertake advanced re- undergraduate costume design competi- ing the individual’s skills and interests. search. Two students and a professor from tion held at the 57th annual Southeastern The Watson Fellowship and the Fulbright Sewanee won Fulbright Scholarships this Theatre Conference in March. The cos- Scholarship fuse passions with studies by year. Charita Roque, C’07, of Fort Wayne, tume design she presented consisted of offering truly unique educational oppor- Ind., will travel to the west African country the production bible, makeup designs, tunities abroad. of Benin, where she plans to study mater- production photos, and a hat from Theatre Watson Fellowships are annually given nal health. Bethany Davis, also C’07, of Sewanee’s recent production of Antigone. to 50 college seniors and facilitate their Cartersville, Ga., received a Fulbright Bi- Sewanee graduate Eliza Greenman, independent explorations for a year im- national Business Grant, which is designed C’06, has been accepted to participate mediately following graduation. This to further understanding of business in in the 2007-2008 Congress-Bund- year, three of the winners came from the Mexico for U.S. students of business, law, estag Youth Exchange (CBYX) for Young University of the South. Syeda Hamadani or engineering. She will spend 10 months Professionals. Greenman is one of 75 par- of Nashville, Tenn., proposed “Discover- working at a multinational company in ticipants chosen from over 500 applicants ing the Hispano-Muslim Identity: The Mexico City and taking business classes in to take part in this unique study and work Legacy of Muslim Influence” for which she the evenings. James Peterman, professor abroad opportunity. The scholarship pro- will visit Morocco, Spain, Peru, Venezuela, of philosophy, will use his scholarship to gram has a strong focus on cultural change, and Argentina. Joshua Harris of Batesville, conduct research for a book he plans to as it is designed to give participants an Ark., called his project “Riding on Blades write called Confucius, Ritual, and Reflection. understanding of everyday life, education, and Rails: Ice Hockey and Train Travel While on sabbatical leave from Sewanee and professional training in Germany and in Slavic Europe.” He will visit the Czech during the 2007-2008 academic year, he the United States. Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Lithuania, will travel to the research institute Academia — Margaret McCall

12 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • Summer 2007 on the mountain “… you’ll be giving yourself a great excuse to come back to the Mountain often — to see your own contribution to the sesquicentennial exhibit.” A n n i e A r m o u r , U n i v e r s i t y A r ch i v i s t

Landscape Analysis Lab Archives requests assistance with Sesquicentennial exhibit conducts comprehensive survey of the Domain The University archives has received several interesting pieces of memorabilia for its upcoming Sesquicentennial exhibit, including a leather pennant and a freshman beanie This summer the Landscape Analysis from 1969 (the very last beanie to be made). Lab (LAL) embarks on a project to create Annie Armour, C’77, director of the archives, is requesting help from the wider a comprehensive geographical informa- Sewanee community to make this a truly comprehensive exhibit. “We would love it if you tion system (GIS) for the Domain. When could go through your Sewanee artifacts to see if there are items you might be ready to complete, “The Digital Domain” will give to posterity,” she said. provide Sewanee faculty and students with In addition to invitations, programs, rings, sweaters, mugs, photographs, and other an extensive catalog of spatial information items, the archives would like as many T-shirts as possible — Sewanee T-shirts that com- for the area including habitats, elevation, memorate an event, an organization, or sport. watersheds, species locations, historical “The only bookstore T-shirt we are looking for is the original white T-shirt with blue and prehistorical sites, roads, trails, soils, arm rims and collar and ‘Sewanee’ written in blue over the left side,” says Armour. geology, and buildings. The exhibit will not require Cap and Gown yearbooks or issues of the Purple. The process requires compiling 60 years Accompanying stories about items sent in will add more meaning to the exhibit. of aerial imagery for the Domain and then “If you enjoy your Sewanee ‘stuff’ so much you don’t know if you can part with it, just using it to identify changes in land-use and consider how much enjoyment your contribution will give to others seeing it on campus,” forest cover over time. says Armour. “And, you’ll be giving yourself a great excuse to come back to the Mountain The GIS database will integrate digital often — to see your own contribution to the sesquicentennial exhibit!” photos, and later video, providing a virtual For more information, contact Annie Armour at [email protected] or experience of the Domain. 931.598.3212, or send items to: The goal of the project is to open up University Archives, Annie Armour Sewanee’s 10,000 acres for students to duPont Library explore in exciting new ways. 735 University Ave. The project team includes Nick Hol- Sewanee, TN 37383 lingshead, LAL lab manager and GIS (Street address for UPS, FedEx, or visiting the archives instructor; Jon Evans, LAL Director; Valerie is 29 University Ave.) Moye, C’07, LAL post-baccalaureate fellow; and Ellen Yungmeyer, C’09, Yeatman fellow. At right: A bottle cap from the University The team will also work closely with Farm Dairy for Grade A buttermilk; A Richard Winslow, Domain manager, and uniform patch for the Hardees baseball his summer interns; Nicole Nunley (for- team — besides the “university-picked” estry and geology); Annie Armour, C’77, nine for baseball in the early years, (archives); Jerry Smith (religion); and there were the prestigious Sewanees other associated faculty and staff. and Hardees teams plus many hall — Jon Evans teams including Right Bower, Kendal, and Hell Cats.

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Sewanee turns 150

Founded in 1857 and chartered in 1858, the University of the South has become ingrained in the plateau. Nobody alive knows life before the University — and, admittedly, enthusiastic alumni would just as soon declare there was no life before the University. In its 150th year, Sewanee and those who have defined it along the way, each of us, celebrate its journey from humble beginnings to the Nation’s upper tier of liberal-arts colleges.

You’re invited!

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Opposite: As this window was being made for the University’s centennial, All Saints’ was still covered in scaffolding, its tower not yet finished. Shown in procession: Mrs. Irenée du Pont, a great benefactor of the University, Bishop Frank Juhan, a major fund-raiser, Bishop Bland Mitchel, Chancellor during the planning stages, Vice Chancellor Edward McCrady, final designer of the building, and Bishop Carruthers, Chancellor at the time of the Centennial. Celebrate with Sewanee!

ewanee’s Sesquicentennial anniversary began with a celebration on July 4, 2007, to Scommemorate the founding meeting of the board of trustees on Lookout Mountain on that same date in 1857. The 10-month celebration includes a wide variety of exhibits and activities around campus. Each building will have a display chronicling its evolution over the years. There will also be periodic “Sesqui-Sundays” with historical tours around campus, including the cemetery, the narthex windows in All Saints’ Chapel, and the stone quarries. For the first time, a five-day celebration will lead up to Founders’ Day Convocation on Oct. 9, 2007. Events include the dedication of a new stained glass window in Convoca- tion Hall, which will chronicle the past 50 years of the University’s history and carry on the progression of windows in the narthex of All Saints’ Chapel. In addition to student gownings and honorary degrees, Convocation will also be marked by the debut of a Sesquicentennial Te Deum, composed by Richard Shephard for this celebration, and the Bishop’s Ball that night. A service at The Church of the Good Shepherd The Sesquicentennial celebration invites alumni and friends to return to campus in on Lookout Mountain gathered University of the mind or body. Those whose Sewanee experiences have concluded will celebrate along South alumni and friends to begin celebrating the with those who are still a work in progress. Memories and knowledge will be shared as we University’s 150th anniversary on July 4, 2007. celebrate the University’s place on the plateau and within ourselves. University founders met atop Lookout Mountain on July 4, 1857.

Sewanee’s Fourth of July celebration kicked off the Sesquicentennial with a How old are we? wide variety of events, many featuring the history To put our 150 years in perspective, of the University. Left: consider that Sewanee pre-dates all of A parade float carries these well-known institutions the University found- and inventions: ers portrayed by (left to American Red Cross, 1881 right facing the camera) Yellowstone National Park, 1872 Tom Sanders, Bran Potter Internal Revenue Service, 1862 and Chris Bryan, among The Pony Express, 1860 others. The Brooklyn Bridge, 1883 Oregon, 1859 After the service on Christmas as a federal holiday, 1870 Lookout Mountain, a group of cyclists (made up National Weather Service, 1870 of alumni, staff, students, Wall Street Journal, 1889 and friends) carried a Swiss Army Knife, 1891 replica 1857 U.S. flag The bell Big Ben, 1859 from Lookout Mountain Memorial Day, 1868 to Sewanee, where they The nickel coin, 1866 joined the parade. Center: Canada, 1867 John Benson and, right, Coors Brewing Company, 1873 Liz Lee C’05.

16 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • Summer 2007 Sesquicentennial Events 2007–2008

Please join us

Five-Day Celebration Family Weekend Homecoming Weekend of the Founding October 13-14, 2007 November 2-4, 2007 October 5–9, 2007 Activities to be determined. Returning alumni will enjoy a full slate of Culminating in the Founders’ Day Con- homecoming events with the seasoning of vocation, the Founders’ Celebration will DuBose Lectures history, including a special Sesquicenten- include activities throughout the weekend: October 18-19, 2007 nial Dance. Sewanee Memorabilia Exhibit; change- Don Armentrout will discuss Sewanee’s ringing bell peal; Founders’ Day Convo- place in church history as a special Sesqui- Easter Convocation cation with guest speaker Jon Meacham, centennial duBose Lecture. January 22, 2008 C’91, editor of Newsweek; dedication of new Details to be determined. stained glass window in Convocation Hall, and more! Sesqui-Sundays!

Tours begin at 400 University Avenue, in what is known Sunday, October 28, 2007 Sunday, March 2, 2008 affectionately as the “Blue House.” Please plan to join u s Professors and staff lead tours of Sewanee’s Sewanee history through the narthex win- for refreshments after each tour. cemetery and historic homes. Learn about dows — All Saints’ Chapel. Sewanee ghosts and legends. Sunday, September 9 , 2007 Sunday, April 13, 2008 Tour Sewanee from the perspective of Sunday, February 3, 2008 The Village, stone quarries, and the Uni- people a century ago. Discover how St. Luke’s and Bishop’s Com- versity dairy. mon shaped the early School of Theology and trace the seminary’s historic move to the new campus.

Before making travel arrangements, please confirm time and date of events you plan to attend by checking the Sesquicentennial web site < http://www.sewanee.edu/150> or calling 800.367.1179.

Summer 2007 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • 17 Sage on the stage no more Changes in the art of teaching

By my sophomore year at Sewanee, I was starting to feel confident in my intellectual abilities. I survived my first year with a respectable grade point average that only slightly s a r a h m e t z g a r s t e ff n e r , C ’ 9 4 reflected my newfound friends and social outlets. So confident was I, in fact, that I talked my way into a history class filled with upper- classmen.

18 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • Summer 2007 Professor Nancy Berner and students examine an animal skeleton.

Summer 2007 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • 19 Dean John Gatta takes advantage of a sunny day on the quad to teach his class.

The first paper I turned in to Dr. Susan retained. If the new buildings were unreal- here but also to the intellectual life of the Ridyard was returned during a profes- ized, the dorms razed, and every decade’s nation.” sor/student meeting similar to those in controversies evaporated, what would be While the teaching quality was stellar, the Ridyard’s native England. As we went over left? The connection between professor way in which that teaching took place was my work in detail and she explained some of and student, and the community of learn- undergoing a fundamental change. “The the many notes in the margins, Dr. Ridyard ing we all celebrate. way we set up schools in the latter part of mentioned that she expected my second the 19th century, the factory was the meta- draft in about a week. In the Beginning There Was the Sage phor,” says anthropology Professor Richard I was floored. I bled for that paper. I lost “The remarkable thing about Sewanee is O’Connor. “It was all about standardizing.” sleep for that paper. I wrote and rewrote that throughout most of its history, until O’Connor now directs Sewanee’s Center and had my brilliant roommate critique quite recently, it’s always been kind of for Teaching, which helps faculty of all ex- that paper. When I pledged it and dropped threadbare,” says history Professor Woody perience levels analyze their teaching styles it in the box in front of Dr. Ridyard’s door, Register, C’80. But he says his research into and effectiveness. I thought I was done. turn-of-the-century Sewanee revealed that He says further shifts in the last 30 years But deconstructing and rebuilding that the schools’ financial troubles did little to have changed teaching yet again. “The lengthy paper on medieval England taught affect the quality of the education. “In the epistemological change is in the grand me some of the best writing lessons I ever 1890s, it was not in an intellectual backwa- narrative,” he says. “The more postmodern learned. I still had plenty of meaningful ter by any means. Of the people who were things are, the more knowledge is negoti- teaching moments with other professors, teaching here, a number of them became ated. So instead of breadth you go for but rewriting what I considered a good prominent in their fields. They were in depth. That drove a lot of faculty toward effort was my first crashing realization of the flow of current intellectual interests. more engaged teaching rather than the college life. They believed what they were doing here lecture format.” Sewanee’s teaching tradition is perhaps was important. And they were contributing Register says he sees that engaged teach- the most cherished legacy the Mountain has not just to the education of the students ing reflected in both faculty practice and 20 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • Summer 2007 Sewanee students talk about Sewanee, they don’t talk about being a math major or a proctor or a cross-country athlete. It is all part of who they are. That’s rare. — N i co l e l O y d , a s s oc i a t e d e a n of s t u d e n t s fo r c a m p u s l i f e

Professor Doug Seiters (right) teaches in a seminar room in Gailor Hall; professor John Evans works with a student in the Landscape Analysis Lab. the bricks and mortar in which the teach- through The Sewanee Call campaign, students to excel. “She was demanding in ing takes place. Renovation in Walsh-Ellett institutionalizes continued innovation by every sense of the word,” he says. “Uncom- Hall, for example, now includes furniture supporting faculty members, students, promising in her standards. And very much that reflects less of the teacher-at-the- and staff who need resources to put into engaged in contemporary historiography, front-of-the-class approach. practice their ideas for how to teach and and historical debates. She saw history in a “Engagement” is to the 21st century learn better. way I had never seen it before.” He says her what “standardization” was to the factory- classes changed his life. “When I cracked inspired universities of the 19th. The Teaching Icons that code, when I broke that barrier, I National Survey of Student Engagement It would be impossible to name the icons discovered how smart I could be, that I quantifies student learning and is becom- of each Sewanee generation. But reading could put my brain to use. That has always ing the gold standard of academic quality. and listening to student stories shows the stayed with me. I worked really, really hard Sewanee does well on that measure, ranking threads that bind them all into campus to get there. And I expect my students to in the top 10 percent in four of the five history. do the same.” benchmarks of engagement and in the top Student Robert Jones Smith, C’16, These stories are just two of the thou- 15 percent of the fifth. wrote about the iconic professors of his sands of examples of what O’Connor calls What is the key? Active and collab- day in his letters home. In one note he said a “moral bond” between Sewanee students orative learning. In recent years, the “Professor Ware told one of the boys he and professors. “If Sewanee has good historic good relationships students and would have marked his paper, but the letters teachers, and I think it does, it’s because faculty at Sewanee have enjoyed have been gave out before he could get as low as his.” Sewanee students have made them,” he says. enriched by increased emphasis on col- Embarrassment is a dangerous tool for “They put a moral burden on faculty.” laborative research, service-learning, and student motivation, but different teachers new interdisciplinary programs such as push their students in different ways. The Whole Life Experience environmental studies and international Dr. Register remembers history Profes- Even as the University and community studies. A new endowment, made possible sor Anita Goodstein as one who pushed her have grown in the last century and a half, Summer 2007 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • 21 the learning relationships have stayed strong. The moral bond O’Connor describes is much easier to encourage when students don’t live 10 miles from campus, first year classes don’t average 300 students, and teaching assistants Alumni Memories: Icons and Ideals don’t conduct the majority of undergraduate study. Dr. Nicole Loyd, associate dean of students for campus life, says that what Sewanee alumni remember as a place As alumni recall their breakthrough teaching dent” before he passed on, but it remains of teaching is still alive and well. She moments, each one remembers a presence, an fresh in my memory over 40 years later. says that the belief in continuous learn- experience, or a thought that helped him or her Abbo’s chiding doubtless had the intended ing comes, in part, from Sewanee’s on a journey of self discovery. To share yours, log effect since he cured me of daydreaming unique sense of place. “Sewanee stu- on to or send a hard copy to Office of Whenever my mind started to drift, the talk about being a math major or a Communications, 735 University Ave., Sewanee, vision of Abbo’s disconsolate stare snapped proctor or a cross-country athlete. It TN 37383. me back to the matters at hand! is all part of who they are,” says Loyd. “That’s rare.” Lyle Key, C’67 Becky Parsley, C’73 Loyd says that the shared belief in typically didn’t find myself daydream- hirty-eight years ago I set foot on learning across faculty and staff is also I ing in Abbott Martin’s classes. Abbo Tthe gravel path leading to All Saints’ uncommon in higher education. “Our was always entertaining, and it was quite Chapel as one of the privileged coeds in Se- profession is about learning,” she says stimulating and enjoyable to be engaged in wanee’s first class of women. In 1969 I held of the dean’s office. “It’s not ‘You learn such things as a semester-long discussion in my hand the letter of acceptance written in the classroom and we entertain you of an epic poem like Homer’s Iliad. On one by John Ransom, whose warmth and gentle and give you fun activities to do’. It particular morning, however, my thoughts humor gave me the ounce of confidence I is about the integration of the entire had wandered off to female companion- needed to believe that Sewanee might in- college experience.” ship, something that wasn’t available on the deed be issuing to me the call I perceived. Part of that integration comes Mountain in the mid-60s. Abbo obviously “Becky, of course we would be delighted from the nature of Sewanee’s campus noticed that I wasn’t focused on the hap- if you should choose to come to Sewanee. as laboratory and the effort made in penings around Troy, and out of the depths I danced with your mother here during recent years to upgrade both academic of my stupor, I realized that he had asked Homecomings in the 1940s!” Hopes and non-academic facilities. Stunning me whether something was good or bad. that I might experience similar interest- spaces like the Fowler Center sports Taking a 50-50 chance of giving him the ing encounters with faculty and staff were complex, McClurg Hall, the Tennessee right answer, I replied that “it” was bad. certainly exceeded. There were music eve- Williams Theatre Center, the Nabit Art As a son of the South, I always had been nings with Charles Harrison, stories with Building, and Gailor Hall are all places on Abbo’s “good side,” but I could tell by Andrew Lytle, discourses in French with where students and teachers meet, his pained expression that I was about to Stratton Buck, the spellbinding lectures hold classes, research, study, hang out, become the target for his wrath. Peering at of Anita Goodstein, and epiphanies of all socialize, procrastinate, and consider me over his glasses, he exclaimed with great sorts from newly recruited faculty members the meaning of life. All of which are sorrow: “This is the only church school in John Reishman and Ted Stirling. intrinsic experiences in teaching. the world where a student would be igno- It wasn’t until a few years after those days rant enough to say that piety is bad.” Abbo’s as a student that I began to understand how The Road Ahead pronouncement provided great comedy for my relationship with Sewanee and the fac- Sewanee has always been, and will my classmates, but it was most embarrassing ulty, now friends, was just beginning. The always be about teaching. Even as fac- for me. After the next semester had begun, Sewanee Summer Seminar, directed first ulty members do groundbreaking re- and I thought the “piety incident” had been by Ted Stirling and later by Bran Potter, search (often with student assistance), forgotten, I chanced to meet Abbo walking is perhaps the most significant ongoing incorporate new technologies, and across campus. “Key,” he said shaking his program in which I have participated since encourage off-campus and interna- head, “I had you down for an ‘A’ until you the 1970s. For a week every summer I tional study, they understand that their made that ignorant comment about piety.” have had the privilege of listening again to primary responsibility is to encourage I hope that Abbo forgot the “piety inci- wise old friends, meeting new faculty and the learning of Sewanee students.

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arguments, which also improved my writing in English and history classes. Years later as a math teacher, I remembered how Dr. Cavagnaro showed me ways to explore and improve my proofs. I never dreamed I would one day be in teaching, but how she taught me really affected the way I taught my students. Because of her I believe I was better able to show my students the process behind proofs and explain how this skill would help them in all their other classes. Close interaction between students and faculty has always been a Sewanee hallmark and provides many alumni with their most cherished memories. Here students and professors meet in the Sandwich Shop in 1952. Martha Bomar, C’2002 hen I started teaching at Duke and remembering why it is that Sewanee calls faculty are willing to give up their Saturdays W there were 200 students in one of to people like me, to many before me and to teach class, has to be dedicated to their my classes, it became clear how really great will continue the call to others in years to students’ education and development.” the teaching at Sewanee is. come. The Saturday classes are now a thing of the I got to know my professors, especially After Henry graduated in 1970 we were past, but I believe that the dedication of the my chemistry professors, not just as scien- married in All Saints’ Chapel by my religion Sewanee faculty to the individual student tists, but as friends who were important to professor, Jim Brettmann, and following continues to be the primary benefit of a me. I got to know them and their families. a memorable reception at Rebel’s Rest, we Sewanee education and is what sets it apart Vice Chancellor Cunningham was another headed for New York to set foot on a dif- from other universities. Perhaps the most person I got to know well. He was learn- ferent path at General Seminary. Sewanee important aspect of my Sewanee education ing cello, and the two of us would play then seemed a very long way away, but the was the sense that the faculty believed in together. tether has held firm all these years. In each of us, as students, and wanted all of But the person I was closest to was some- fact, we have found that the Sewanee family us to reach our full potential. one I never even had a class with. After a bad tree is far reaching to those of us who have EMT call, Dean of Students Rob Pearigen landed far afield. Now that Henry is serv- Andrea Watson Odle, C’94 was so supportive. He really made himself ing as Chancellor of the University we have ath Professor Catherine Cavagnaro available; he gave me his cell phone number taken our place in line with the “never fail- Mtaught me a lot of important things, and called me to check up. It wasn’t just a ing succession of benefactors” and can only like how great potatoes are on a pizza. But one time thing. He followed through over be thankful in return for the extraordinary some of the lessons I learned from her I years and years. gifts we have received. didn’t even know I learned until years after In academics, we get very set in our roles, I left Sewanee. as far as being analytical and research- Stevens Anderson, C’79 I was lucky to be in her topology class, ing one thing. But our nature as people hen looking at universities as a high one of the first classes she taught at Sewanee. drives us to have a broader approach to W school junior, I considered several A lot of it was writing proofs, just like you the person as a whole. I think it was all of well-known institutions. My parents were remember from geometry class. I enjoyed these experiences that helped me be able immediately impressed by Sewanee. In the work, but Dr. Cavagnaro showed me to talk with a lot of different people. It those days, Sewanee still had Saturday class- why that work was important. She taught puts everyone on equal footing, not in an es and my father said, “Any school where the me how to construct better mathematical artificial hierarchy.

Summer 2007 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • 23 Minding their Manners The beginning of Sewanee’s long history of boarding houses and those who supervise them

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24 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • Summer 2007 One of Sewanee’s longest standing traditions, older than the Order of Gownsmen and Honor system, is the custom of providing a bit of “home-away- from-home” by having an adult presence in student housing.

rom the beginning of the school, in the firstCon - F stitution and Statutes, the trustees laid out a boarding house plan for student living. Under the statutes the vice chancellor licensed each boarding house, the proctor — a paid police officer — inspected them weekly, and the proprietor fed the students and kept order in the house. The statutes required all students to board, all houses to be licensed, and residents limited to no more than 12 students. In this relationship the heads of the halls, usually widowed ladies with families but sometimes professors and others, received income, and the University was Above: a boarding house license for “Mrs. John McCrady’s Hall” released from concentrating its building efforts on what dated 1890; left: the residents of Barnwell; below: Kendal House. Minding their Manners “The Calendar or Catalogue described student living arrangements: ‘The University has no Boarding Department. Students board in licensed houses, under the supervision of the authorities…. Students bring one pair of blankets, three sheets, two pillow cases, six napkins, and six towels…. The uniform is an economical dress, and may be worn at all times. Ordinarily one suit per annum suffices for required use.’ Student academic expenses totaled $126 for damage fee, tuition, medical fee, and $1.00 for mail carriage. Personal expenses were $281.50 for board, washing and mending, fuel, and one uniform at $29 for a total of $407.50.” –– Elizabeth N. Chitty, “A Century Ago II” (The Mountain Messenger, Oct. 28, 1988)

Summer 2007 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • 25 was noted as “a troublesome department Polk’s on Alabama Avenue south of the cur- … we think the from which it derives no profit.” rent McCrady Hall; and Magnolia in the The spirit, if not the letter, of the law was vicinity of Woods Lab. Supporting services more first-class followed in those early days. The University included a bathing tank filled by Otey and had to build a few halls in the beginning Polk springs and a public laundry. homes, the more — among them Tremlett, where the Phi Several families built cottages adjacent house now stands, with 14 rooms and 38 to their own homes to house students. One students (surpassing the original limit of 12 of those popular cottages still remains: attractive the students); the Marburg building attached “Purple Haze” next to the present-day to Tremlett, and a wing on Otey Hall built Carlos house on Tennessee Avenue. University. by the Diocese in 1867 then given to the During those years, the trustees’ com- University. mittee on boarding houses reported T rustees’ rep o r t, 1 8 7 7 Some students still lived in private satisfaction with the comfort, health, and homes, and as time went on the University care provided by the system. As they empha- built several more dormitories: one on sized in 1877, they chose boarding houses General Gorgas’ property where the Parker “so the family idea and influence may be house still stands, one on Mrs. Elliott’s retained … we think the more first-class property — the home of Sarah Barnwell homes, the more attractive the University.” Elliott, writer and frequent contributor Each hall had a different culture, and usu- to Sewanee life — which is still next to ally one or two baseball teams. Cleveland Hall; one on Mrs. Cotten’s lot The University advertised “the students — a popular boarding hall which, after it are lodged … at the several boarding-hous- burned, was replaced by Tuckaway Hall; and es. These are in charge of ladies of culture eight single cottages, each 12 feet square and and refinement. It is their influence, and accommodating two students. The cottages that of the refined society collected here, were located on Tennessee Avenue on the that is chiefly relied on to promote good left (when traveling toward the Cross) just morals and correct habits.” It was also seen before the current site of the seminary. as a further advantage that the smaller the By 1872 there was “no need for new number of students housed together the dorms.” New to the boarding house scene less likely would be epidemics of illness. were Palmetto Hall, located in the vicinity By 1886 however, some chronic prob- of today’s McClurg Dining Hall; Mrs. E.M. lems were surfacing. The condition of the

Van Ness Otey Palmetto

26 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • Summer 2007 privies was a continual source of complaint. students had gravitated to St. Luke’s Hall Referring to graffiti on the walls the com- by then, and medical students tended to mittee on boarding houses reported “it is board together as well — one such place was an indication of underbreeding in a boy on University Avenue where the Cockes or youth to soil a place which he is com- live now, next to the current elementary who ran the first pelled to visit” and “they were some time school. Juniors — referring to freshmen ago put in complete order with comfort- and sophomores — were required to live boarding houses? able wooden seats, but the students have in the five-story Hoffman Hall (the first wantonly destroyed them.” As a result a Hoffman was a former hotel brought up by Mrs. M. A. DuBose sewage pipe system was suggested, along train from Scottsboro, Alabama). Mrs. Tucker with underground cisterns, rain barrels, The yearbook bemoaned all these General E. Kirby-Smith Family and rules requiring homes and livestock to changes: “Those who ought to know say, be at least 50 feet from streams. with a lugubrious shake of the head, that Miss Sada Elliott It was recommended that grammar Sewanee is changing, that the grand old Mrs. A. S. Jones school boys be separated from the college time of Bishop Gailor and all the kindred Miss M. L. Porcher and summer boarders: “whatever fancied hosts who were the majesty and love of old Mrs. E. C. Quintard advantages are derived from so-called fam- Sewanee are gone forever, and in their stead ily life of the boys are, in the very necessity have come the sacrilegious rehabilitation of Mrs. A. A. Cummings of the case, counterbalanced by the un- Tremlett (for medical students), the aboli- Mrs. Van Ness avoidable injury which is done to the boys by tion of the hall system, and the alarming Mrs. Corperning contact with young men so much older, by invasion of the Goths and Vandals of the Mrs. B. Polk the laxity of discipline, by the intermingling murdering Cain.” Mrs. C. T. Quintard of summer boarders in the same house, by As the University and its housing system the want of punctuality at meal hours, by the grew, worries over food quality began to in- free use of rooms and the lounging on beds, crease as well — each house still provided its the loafing in each other’s rooms, by the own meals. The University swiftly dealt with unpunctuality in rising and going to bed, complaints about bad beef, moldy bread, by the want of control which all boys need in watered-down milk, or contaminated wa- the formation portion of their lives.” ter, but by 1918, now coping with several By the turn of the century, grammar more residence halls full of students, the school students lived in Quintard Hall and trustees decided to consolidate dining in had masters living with them; most divinity one place, Magnolia Hall.

St. Luke’s Tremlett Magnolia

Summer 2007 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • 27 Magnolia Hall Local farmers brought chickens, eggs, and milk to Magnolia Hall — the dining hall — on a weekly basis, serving as the major supply of food for the university. G e r a l d S m i t h , h i s t o r y w e b p a g e < http://smith2.sewanee.edu/barn/html/history.html>

28 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • Summer 2007 Continuing with tradition the tables sponsorship of fraternities — Mrs. Maude faculty and staff were less comfortable about were still presided over by matrons, heed- Kirby-Smith loved to treat certain SAE’s to mingling with students socially. ing Bishop Elliott’s advice that “no students Sunday afternoon opera, and Mrs. Torian The remnants of the “family idea and in- should sit down at the table unless a lady took care of the Phi Delta Thetas. fluence” tradition is now vested mainly in the were at the head of it, to teach manners.” Students were frequently invited to din- current head residents who still model good This particular custom continued in some ner at family homes. In today’s world such manners, keep order, and provide some form until about 1969. commitments would be considered “at semblance of home — a brownie, a living Most students were living in dormitories work 24/7 during the year.” In those days, it room couch, a sympathetic ear, wise advice, by 1927 — Cannon, Hoffman, Elliott, was described as “cultured gentlefolk living maybe even a scolding or emergency help. Johnson, and Tuckaway, plus Quintard together in contented poverty.” Other colleges around the country are for the high school and St. Luke’s for the Eventually the faculty recommended just now catching on to the idea that this seminary. Both Hoffman and Quintard doing away with official “porch light visits,” influence is beneficial to students. Several had already burned once and been rebuilt. not because they weren’t interested in pro- schools, including Vanderbilt, have re- The ladies moved in to the residence halls viding the hospitality, but because students cently begun building housing for staff and as matrons continuing their influence over did not take advantage of it as often as they students together. Sewanee was ahead of its the young men. Many of them served over had in the past. Compounding the matter time with this concept. Like all Sewanee 20 years, and Miss Johnnie Tucker report- was the increasing necessity for two-income traditions, the modern version looks quite edly was matron for 50. families which meant there was less time different from that of the “olden days,” but Members of the campus community had and energy for entertaining. the spirit of it lives on. always opened up their homes to entertain Also contributing to the decline of “porch students, and this continued with faculty light visits,” students now had more ways The Archives encourages reminiscences from alumni of and staff wives holding weekly “at homes” to get off the Mountain for entertainment life in the dorms, relationships with matrons and head open to all students. Many looked forward and more campus activities offered to them residents, and social interactions with faculty and staff. to Mrs. Reynolds Marvin Kirby-Smith’s at night. The cafeteria system had replaced We call it fodder for future articles and exhibitions. chocolate cake on Tuesdays, Mrs. George family-style dining and when the drinking Contact Annie Armour, [email protected] or Myers’ “at home” on Wednesdays, and Se- age was raised back to 21 in the mid-1980s, 931.598.3212 ñor William Lewis’ after-dinner coffees. On weekends, Sunday night visiting with professors was popular, and on dance weekends faculty homes were crammed with students and their dates. The vice chancellor often left his porch light on as an open invitation to visit. Many ladies took on

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Summer 2007 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • 29 he Sesquicentennial History Project But the Commercial Appeal on March 29, Thas made a number of discoveries, 1933, was far more fulsome: “Memphians from the mock groundbreaking ceremony Protest Anti-Jewish Activity: Resolution for All Saints’ Chapel in the fall of 1904 to Condemning Hitler Adopted at Mass the fact that Sewanee and Vanderbilt would Meeting: More than 1,500 Attend: Bishop have continued playing football, even after Gailor Asserts Persecution Has Denied In- Sewanee left the Southeastern Conference. dividual Right to Happiness and Freedom Only World War II finally put an end to — Relapse Into Savagery.” At the meeting the series. But one of the most surprising Gailor had delivered the main address and discoveries is the vigorous public opposi- had been “accorded thunderous applause tion that Bishop Thomas Gailor gave at an on his introduction by Mayor Overton who anti-Nazi rally held in Memphis in March presided.” 1933, just weeks after Hitler’s accession to The bishop had begun by reviewing the power in Germany. German situation. He told the audience “It Knowing the future In 1933 Bishop Thomas Gailor foresaw the savage future of the Nazi Party and took a public stand in opposition

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Generations of Sewanee undergraduates is impossible to believe that sane men would before the first major mass arrest of Jews remember Gailor only for the less-than- so indulge their madness. Their acts are and dissidents in Germany. His prophetic effective dining hall named in his memory. sheer and brutal barbarism and a contradic- words were unfortunately forgotten as the Yet his career at Sewanee was unusual, for tion of the principles of civilization.” Then 1930s continued and most Americans he is the only person to have been chaplain, he went on, well before President Franklin turned a blind eye to events in Germany. In vice chancellor and chancellor, serving in Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms’ address of Janu- 1945, a decade after Gailor’s death, Ameri- the latter capacity from 1908 to 1935. A ary 1941, to proclaim the requirements of cans would see the realization of his worst friend of American presidents, one of the and principles for a civilized society: fears in the horrors of the death camps and three speakers at the 1907 groundbreaking 1. The right of the individual to free- the Holocaust. for the National Cathedral in Washing- dom and happiness. Thomas Gailor was a man for all seasons, ton, D.C., and the first interim presiding 2. Individual, national and inter- the longest serving of all the chancellors of bishop of the Episcopal Church, Gailor was national intolerance to human the University, whose house once stood the most prominent Southern Episcopal suffering. on the site of today’s Clement Chen Hall, clergyman of his day. He was a persona. 3. Mutual respect and co-operation and whose memory is now more perfectly Thus his commitment to help the Jew- among mankind. honored in a renovated Gailor Hall that ish community in Memphis meant public 4. Repudiation of religious and racial serves as the center for the humanities. attention to whatever was said by him. On persecution and prejudice. Still, his 1933 words also deserve recogni- March 24, 1933, the Memphis Commercial Ap- “Any violation of these principles,” tion and remembrance, for they say much peal announced “Protest Meeting to Hear insisted Gailor, meant “a relapse into about the man and his place in Sewanee’s Bishop Gailor.” He would, the paper savagery.” He ended his speech with the long history. reported, be one of the speakers at a “city- ringing declaration: “I stand second to no Bishop Gailor’s courageous pronounce- wide, non-sectarian mass meeting in Ellis man in my admiration of the Jews and their ment, within of weeks of Hitler having Auditorium in protest of the persecution accomplishments. I consider it a privilege taken power, serves as a powerful reminder of the German Jewry by the regime under to be here.” that many associated with Sewanee over the Adolf Hitler.” Gailor’s public stance against the Nazi years have taken courageous stands on is- In his diary for March 28, 1933, Gailor regime preceded by years that of most sues — social and political — that have had wrote simply: “8 p.m. address at meeting to American political leaders and even church an impact upon American politics and protest against Hitler’s treatment of Jews.” leaders; indeed, his warnings came even American religious life.

30 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • Summer 2007 • • My Sewanee Calling Enduring Friendships

By Pradip Malde

ewanee chanced its way into my life. SA summer tourist’s ramble through Abbo’s Alley led, many years later, to my pondering over this question of what is my Sewanee calling? What initially brought me to Sewanee was a deep and enduring friendship, and it is friendship that keeps me, a mental and geographic nomad by nature, here. I’d like to think that my friendship with Sewanee, the place, is multifarious. There is the community, and many have commented about it in ways that I do not have words to improve upon. As a teacher, I can write about the many friendships that have resulted from shared academic interests. As a faculty member, I can write about the Pradip Malde took this photograph of a Haitian man preparing for college entrance sharing and supportive community of my colleagues. examinations during spring break 2007. Along with Deb McGrath, associate All of this seems obvious and worthy professor of biology, and Dixon Myers, coordinator of campus outreach, Malde of acknowledgment. But there is some- led a group of students to Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. thing else. I was attracted to Sewanee for Malde’s documentary photography class took photographs in Cange, Les Cayes, and all of the aforementioned reasons, and elsewhere in Haiti. ^ In 2007, Merrill Stewart Jr. father of Merrill Stewart III, for one other which is not spoken of C’07, established a faculty support fund in honor of Malde. The younger Stewart, enough. I take this opportunity then to an art major, was influenced by Malde’s engaged and innovative teaching, of which remind myself of it. the Haiti project is but one example. ^ Photographs from the project are on Memo: Sewanee, first visit, a British sale either as individual prints or in a book that contains all the students’ work. tourist. Slowly driving past Manigault Proceeds go to the Mango House Project, Organization for the Rehabilitation Park, I feel the gentleness of the plush of the Environment (ORE), Camp Perrin, Haiti. ^ To order prints or a book, summer green. Photographer that I am, visit http://art.sewanee.edu/haiti. the visual glide of the cloister between Convocation and Walsh Ellet, with a

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Summer 2007 • The Sewanee Call • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • 31 Establishing Provenance How history, antiques, and family loyalty combine to support Sewanee faculty

ill Turner is a storyteller. “There was always something going on with the B He collects stories like he collects antiques Chittys — parties, gatherings — all sorts of things.” — prodigiously. His characters are his brother In addition to helping the Chittys with social gath- Charles, a cousin, Mary Turner Rule, Arthur Ben erings, Turner kept busy with theatre and writing and Betty Nick Chitty, various Pensacola friends for the Purple. He remembers one particularly and employees of a local bank, the owner of a frame interesting event involving the Purple. “There was shop, and his grandfather, Charlie Hill Turner, a photo of Bishop Juhan with Jessie Ball duPont who was called away from college to run the family and some other people at a football game. The construction business back in 1890 because his caption in the Purple read ‘And the monarch and father was dying. (The man died 16 years later.) his minions and his dames / Viewed the games’ Featuring prominently in the tales are Turner’s from Browning’s “Love Among the Ruins.” Well, home (in Pensacola’s North Hill Preservation Dis- when Arthur Ben Chitty discovered that he seized trict built by Charlie and with impressive black cypress interior the Purple. As far as I know it was the only time the Purple had been cabinetry), Bill’s collection of cloisonné, a player piano, and a censored. A few days later, a new issue came out and Arthur Ben closet full of brother Charles’s clothes. had stamped on each one “Nihil Obstat,” to indicate it was an issue His themes: love of family, love of Sewanee, the life of the approved by Arthur Ben.” mind, appreciation of finer things, and personal rootedness. A banker for 28 years, Turner retired when the bank was His stories are part remembrance and part provenance for purchased by a regional chain. Charles and Bill purchased the a new endowment Turner recently created as part of his estate house next door, which Charlie Hill Turner had built for his plan. In April, he completed a conversation with Sewanee that sister at the turn of the last century, and Bill started an antique had spanned several years by signing an agreement establishing store, stocking it with items purchased on a trip to London. the William Richard Turner Jr. and Charles Hill Turner Faculty While Turner stocked the store with varied objects, he became Support Fund. something of a specialist in lamps along the way. The endowment is a substantial part of a $10 million initia- Early in his career, brother Charles bought computers for the tive, called the Faculty Achievement Fund, to build resources Navy, later working for RCA. Then he moved to Data General supporting faculty compensation. Turner has agreed to pool and was assigned to a location on Route 128 in the Boston area. his gift with that of an anonymous donor to create a $2.25 After a year, he asked for a transfer to Houston, and completed million Faculty Achievement Challenge. The Turner Fund is his career. In 2000, Charles returned Pensacola, battling cancer named for Turner and his late younger brother Charles, both in the care of his brother, Bill. graduates of Sewanee. Bill’s home and the shop next door are filled with antiques: Charles and Bill came to Sewanee from Pensacola. Cousins from the beautiful to the charming, all the way through the of Betty Nick Chitty, the brothers quickly entwined themselves quirky, and Turner has a story for practically every item. To- in the University scene. “Betty Nick and I had a secret code, gether, all these stories establish the provenance of the Turner so I could get in touch with her,” says Turner, alluding to the Endowment, which will benefit Sewanee faculty and students squirrely campus phone system on campus in the late 1950s. in perpetuity.

The Faculty Achievement Fund What are the benefits? How can you help? • Build a $10 million endowment, • Increase faculty compensation for a • Create a faculty support endow- the Faculty Achievement Fund, to faculty that is ranked 47th out of the ment (a component of the Faculty enhance faculty salaries. top 50 liberal arts colleges. Achievement Fund) with a gift of • Create the Faculty Achievement Fund • Ensure ongoing excellence of a fac- $50,000 or more. through a combination of named en- ulty experiencing turnover due to • Respond to the Faculty Achievement dowments (faculty support funds) and retirement. Challenge by making a gift of any other gifts. • Help slow the growth of tuition by amount to the faculty achievement • Manage endowment to provide a salary providing a permanent source of fund. supplement to permanent faculty. funding for faculty compensation.

32 • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • The Sewanee Call • Summer 2007 O-chem II. So I started looking around for summer programs and registered for a class at LSU. “Well, a friend of mine from Green- wood invited me to the SAE house for a party, and there was Mae.” “I went home that night and told my mother, ‘Mom, I just met your future son-in-law,’” Mae remembers. “We got married a few years later,” Ed A Picture-Perfect Gift continues. “We had three children in four years, two boys and a little girl, during a time when I was doing my OB-GYN own one wing of the home of set up a light box so he can take high residency. All our relatives wondered if I DMae and Ed Bowman, C’51, an quality photos of the three-dimensional was learning anything.” enormous stack of photo paper — lit- pieces. Renaissance manuscripts with Turning to a file of photos, Bowman erally a lifetime supply — spills out of plainsong grace the front entrance and turns reflective. “I went to Sewanee on a chair and onto the floor. “Mae won a magnificent painting from the Van a merit scholarship and I feel like I owe that in a contest sponsored by Kodak,” Dyck studio of George Gordon, the them something.” It’s a quiet moment Ed explains, and later, he shows the Second Marquess of Huntly, hangs in suddenly. photo, on display in their shared office. the living room. Living and working in Louisiana, the Taken with an inexpensive Brownie “I came to Sewanee from Greenwood, Bowmans spent vacation time on the camera decades ago when Bowman was Mississippi, at the suggestion of a close Florida Gulf Coast. Along the way, they stationed in Germany, the photo shows friend, John Fair Lucas [C’52],” Bow- purchased the lot on which their house an alpine village wreathed in fog. The man explains, browsing through the sits and an adjacent 15 acres of pine trees, village appears as if from a dream, a thousands of scanned photographs he wetlands, and water frontage. It is this clearing of magic hiding Brigadoon. has added to his computer. “We started property that will become the Bowmans’ Ed says he prefers a photo Mae took in together in the summer of 1948 in response to The Sewanee Call. One very Wiesbaden, but the otherwordly qual- freshman English with unforgettable Dr. likely result of the gift will be residential ity of the winning photograph explains Harrison. John and I were pre-med stu- development, a move that will surely have something of why Mae’s picture was se- dents and after three years we both went an effect on their own privacy and their lected winner in this national contest. on to Tulane Med School. I wanted a view of striking pine woods. For art- For the Bowmans, photography is degree from Sewanee which meant that I ists and collectors of images such as the not only a shared hobby; it is a key to had to go to summer school as well as take Bowmans, it is a gift that is generous well how they interact with the world. Their a heavy schedule in the winter. By spring beyond its important monetary value. world is a visual one, where the image, of the third year I was pretty well burned The proceeds from the sale of the the view, the framing is paramount. out from studying. So when Crow Elliot property will go toward the Facul- Their house sits on a point jutting out [George Elliot, C’51] asked if I’d like ty Achievement Fund. The Faculty into Florida’s Choctawhatchee Bay, to go on Spring Break at his mother’s Achievement Fund is a major initiative with Santa Rosa Beach just to the south. house on the beach at Destin, I leaped at of The Sewanee Call that is focused on The house, which they built when Ed the chance. After spring break, I saw Dr. building new endowment to support retired from his medical practice is de- Davis one day (Grumbling Roy Davis, faculty salaries. This fund will help signed so that every room has a view of we called him), and he told me I wasn’t ensure that Sewanee can continue to the water. There are books everywhere, going to pass organic chemistry because attract outstanding faculty members to and boxes of slides and photos as well I hadn’t been in the lab since January. I the Mountain. “Teachers are seldom as a display case with Native American was Phi Beta Kappa and had already been adequately compensated for their contri- and Casa Grande pottery. Bowman has admitted to medical school, but I needed butions to society,” said Bowman.

Summer 2007 • The Sewanee Call • SEWANEE MAGAZINE • 33 continued from p a g e 3 1 slower-shifting Garth further back, taps The Sewanee Call an emotional core. Recognizing this, I say to my friend, I have found a home. he Sewanee Call ends on June 30, 2008. As of June 15, 2007, the campaign Memo: Sewanee, four years later Tstood at $158 million, or $22 million away from the campaign goal. (1989), Visiting Assistant Professor. My The often-stated goals for The Sewanee Call are to: colleagues in Scotland ask me what this ◗ Build new endowment to support scholarships, faculty salaries, and program en- place is like. They listen incredulously as hancements I tell them how one barely has to think of ◗ Construct new buildings and other resources to support the academic enterprise an idea and it becomes feasible, thanks ◗ Strengthen day-to-day operations through increased annual giving to colleagues and an administration that Much has been accomplished already through The Sewanee Call, and much remains facilitates. For example, four students to be accomplished, including creating the Faculty Achievement Fund and finishing came to me with an idea to teach Friday funding of the Spencer Hall addition to Woods Laboratory and the Snowden Hall School at Sewanee Elementary School renovation and addition. During the sesquicentennial year, the last year of The Sewanee with Polaroid cameras. They prepared Call, we want you to be part of this historic effort. To make a gift to the campaign, a budget, and had no idea where they please contact a staff member listed in the following column. could get the necessary funds ($800). Nor did I. So I spoke to Fred Croom, As of June 15, the campaign had Campaign Staff then Provost. He listened, nodded and Yogi Anderson (ext. 1431) said, “I’ll take care of it.” reached $158 million. [email protected] Memo: 1999. A colleague and I are 180 Anne Chenoweth Deutsch (ext. 1597) sipping sodas on Halloween. I’m dressed 170 [email protected] as Frankenstein; he is the vice chancellor. 160 Lauren W. Drinen (ext. 1914) 150 And I find myself saying that even though [email protected] 140 Ed Moser (ext. 1848) we often have hugely differing opinions 130 about some things in Sewanee, there is a 120 [email protected] simile worth considering — that he and I 110 Jimmy Owen (ext. 1316) are tugboats, and Sewanee is a very large 100 [email protected] ship. Sometimes, tugboats have to take 90 Rob Pearigen (ext. 1496)

very different trajectories to prevent the Millions $ 80 [email protected] mother ship from floundering. (I agreed 70 Nanette Rudolf (ext. 1733) that he was a bigger tugboat than me.) 60 [email protected] Memo: Last spring break, with 50 David Spragens (ext. 1405) 40 Sewanee students, Haiti. I watch a young [email protected] 30 Terri Williams (ext. 1128) man intensely preparing for an entrance 20 exam to college. He wants to be a doc- 10 [email protected] tor. He is in one of the poorest parts of one of the poorest nations in the world. His determination, that look on his that here, for the first time in my life, was through the naming of the fund. Here face, the mountain of obstacles he faced the possibility to have a full and mean- are faculty members who have been so and overcame just to get to this point, ingful friendship with an institution. I honored: the mountain of opportunities that my can say that for most of my 17 odd years Marcia and William Clarkson students and I have come down from, here, this intuition has been fulfilled. Gilbert F. Gilchrist and the responsibilities and privileges we And there is still room for improvement William B. Gunther all share and yearn for; I realize that my — as with all friendships. Eugene Kayden teaching cannot be segregated from my Señor William Lewis community. The institution as friend; Honoring faculty members Pradip Malde it is home, it enables, it is familiar, it Several donors who have established Eric W. Naylor fosters humility. faculty support funds have also wanted John Reishman What called me to Sewanee was a sense to honor a particular faculty member Arthur Schaefer

For ongoing information about The Sewanee Call campaign, visit http://ur.sewanee.edu/sewaneecall To speak with a member of the campaign team, call 800.367.1179.

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Sewanee women’s tennis team finishes third in the nation in NCAA Division III championship

he Sewanee women’s tennis team The women’s tennis team also defeated T(23-2), under the leadership of DePauw for the Southern Collegiate Ath- Sewanee’s winningest coach, Conchie letic Conference (SCAC) title on its way Shackelford (365 wins), finished third in to nationals. This was the first outright the nation after defeating Williams College conference championship for the Tigers. at the NCAA Division III championships Shackelford was named SCAC coach of in Fredericksburg, Va. This is the highest the year and Gabriela Carvalho (Rock national finish of any Sewanee team and the Hill, S.C.), C’08, and seniors Laura milestone capped an exciting and beautiful Fanjoy (Statesville, N.C.) and Lauren spring on the Mountain, when we abandon Willett (Greenville, S.C.) picked up all- the courts and pools of the winter season, conference honors. Carvalho finished in only to enjoy the excitement of baseball, the top eight in the nation for her singles Molly Willett, followed by the rest of the team, rushes equestrian, golf, softball, tennis, and track play in 2007, while Fanjoy was in the the court to congratulate Lauren Willett, who secured and field. Sweet Sixteen. Sewanee’s victory over Emory.

spring sports wrapup

enior John Davis led the 2007 sub-100 rounds, finishing the event Sbaseball Tigers with all-confer- 21st overall with a total of 196. For the ence and American Baseball Coaches men, the Tigers finished seventh in Association (ABCA) all-region nods the SCAC and newcomer Ben Avery post-season. Davis, a recent economics paced Sewanee, shooting 76 on the fi- grad from Tallahassee, led the Tigers nal day of SCAC competition. Robert with a .409 batting average and was the Osborne, C’08, took the two-day low team leader in batting average, slugging score for Sewanee and finished 16th percentage, runs scored, triples, home overall. Avery and Osborne both hail runs, and total bases. On the mound, from Augusta, Ga. Sewanee looked to former Franklin Outfielder Lauren Martin, a County standout Josh Curtis, also a recent graduate majoring in biology senior, to lead the Tiger pitching game. Left: Senior Josh Curtis led the Tiger pitching game. Right: Charlie Boyd picked up all-conference honors for Scott Baker’s Tigers were a young team serves as his mother, Laura, and Coach Shack look on. her 2007 softball performance. The and the 4-29 squad will look to build Birmingham native led the 6-20 on the 2007 season with improvement in the open flat competition and placed 11th Tigers in batting average (.380), in 2008. nationally at the prestigious Cacchione Cup slugging percentage, on-base percentage, The equestrian team continued to be Class at the 2007 nationals. runs scored, hits, triples, and total bases. one of the strongest programs in the na- On the golf links, the women rallied at the The softball Tigers excelled in the classroom tion this year, earning regional champion Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference as well as on the field in 2007 as senior honors for the eighth consecutive year. The Championships on the final day to surpass Katie Payne (Avondale Estates, Ga.) was Tigers edged out Vanderbilt, Murray State, in-state and conference rival Rhodes for a selected first team academic all-district by and MTSU for the prize. Elizabeth West, sixth place finish. First year player Cassie the College Sports Information Directors C’09, was the individual regional champion Dixon (Trinidad, Colo.) shot a pair of of America (COSIDA). Payne graduated

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Sewanee Announces 2007 Hall of Fame Class

ewanee has announced its 2007 class of inductees for the Sewanee Athletics Hall of SFame, according to Mark Webb, director of athletics. Founded in 2004, the Hall of Fame’s purpose is to give lasting recognition to those individuals and teams who have made exceptional contributions to the achievements and prestige of the University in the field of athletics and who have continued to demonstrate in their lives the values imparted by intercollegiate athletics. All-SCAC vaulter Tyler Cooney The reward of competition through sports, the importance of good sportsmanship, and the desire to succeed through hard work, discipline, and teamwork, have proven to be of with a 3.96 cumulative GPA and earned a value in the lives of the men and women who represent Sewanee varsity athletics. 4.0 last term. The induction and accompanying events will take place Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 in Sewanee, The men’s tennis squad, led by veteran with the induction occurring during halftime of the Sewanee vs. Westminster football game coach John Shackelford, took fourth at on Saturday afternoon. the SCAC championships in April. The Tigers finished 11-10 and were led by #1 slot 2007 Class player sophomore Charlie Boyd (Nashville/ Clarence “Bugs” Carter, coach Rachel Reimer, C’97, field hockey MBA), who took all-SCAC honors and Coached 20 years under legendary coach First team All-American in 1995, All- finished in the top 16 in the nation at the Shirley Majors … confidant, friend, and American in 1996 … NFHCA Great Lakes D3 championships in May. Senior Andrew leader to many Sewanee students … assistant Regional All-American in 1995 and 1996 Crone got an honorable mention nod by football coach, head baseball coach, head … Led nation in goals against average … the SCAC for his 2007 performance. The track coach, and assistant basketball coach … All-region in 1995 … 1996 KIT Confer- Little Rock native recently graduated from standout football player at Wyoming, where ence MVP … 1996 KIT All-Conference the college with a degree in economics. he is a Hall of Fame member. … Career leader at Sewanee for shutouts, The Sewanee men’s track and field team keeper saves, and save percentage … took seventh at the SCAC championships Lee Glenn, C’57, football Single season leader for keeper saves, save and had three athletes finish with all-con- All-American in 1956 … Team captain percentage, and goals averaged against … ference honors. Mt. Dora, Fla.’s Tyler in 1956 … President New York chapter of Four-year letter winner. Cooney, C’09, took third place in the pole Alumni Association … President of As- vault and was all-SCAC. Freshman Hunter sociated Alumni … Distinguished Alumni Alex Wellford, C’34, men’s tennis, baseball, Hobson (Ft. Mill, S.C.) had his college Award Recipient … President of Phi Delta football personal best and earned all-conference Theta … Member of the “S” Club. Team captain and #1 player at Sewanee … honors with a second place finish in the Played at Wimbledon … Representative 100-meter dash. Signal Mountain native Larry Isacksen, C’58, men’s basketball at the Gordon Cup … Member of the and former McCallie standout Allan Long Set school rebound record in 1957 with 23 Southern Tennis Hall of Fame … Member was fourth in the 110-meter hurdles and against Vanderbilt … Second and third in of the Tennessee Tennis Hall of Fame … placed third with an all-conference 200- single-game scoring performances with Team captain in baseball and football … meter dash finish. showings of 53 and 43 … Holds four of Founder of Memphis Tennis Association The fourth place women’s track and field 12 top scoring performances in Sewanee … Founder of the Memphis University team was led by its throwers in 2007. Senior history, including 37 points in Vanderbilt’s School. Mary Alice Mathison was SCAC cham- then new gymnasium. pion and all-conference in the discus. The Greg Worsowicz, C’82, football Pensacola native was also all-conference Ellen Gray Maybank Hogan, C’90, All-American in 1981 … NCAA Postgrad- and recorded her personal best in the shot women’s tennis uate Scholar … All-CAC in 1980 and 1981 put. Rachel Watson (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) All-American in singles and doubles in … sixth in nation in 1979 for kickoff return had a personal best and was the SCAC 1989 … All-American in singles and dou- yardage … Led CAC with seven intercep- champion in the javelin. This performance bles in 1990 … 1990 team was fourth place tions in 1981 … Held school records for also earned Watson, C’09, all-conference in the nation at the NCAA tournament … kickoff returns and kickoff return yardage honors. Birmingham native Jane Johnson four-year letter winner. … Four-year letter winner … Earned a also placed second in the javelin, taking all- tryout with the Seattle Seahawks. conference honors as well.

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Celebrating 35 years of Women’s Sports at Sewanee

early 100 years passed between the first Sewanee varsity Nbaseball game in 1875 and Sewanee’s first women’s varsity tennis match in 1972. The Mountain experienced the renowned 1899 football team, the building of All Saints’ Chapel, Willie Six, World Wars I and II, the first African-American student to enroll in the college, the addition of women to the college, the undefeated and untied football teams of 1958 and 63, and much, much more. As we wrap up the 2006-07 academic year, we look back on and celebrate 35 years of women’s athletics at Sewanee. On April 15, 1972, the Lady Tiger tennis team lost to Milligan College in Sewanee under the leadership of Coach Mary Jane Donal- ley, and women’s sports at Sewanee was a reality. Three years later, 1975 marked the formation of volleyball, basketball, gymnastics, synchronized swimming, and field hockey teams. Above: Kim Valek, C’87, Sewanee’s first women’s From the beginning of their time here, Sewanee women have achieved impressive all-American; below left: Sewanee’s 1975 field hockey feats, received numerous awards and honors, turned out successful graduates and team; below right: field hockey action in 1976. established women’s sports at Sewanee as a part of our community and our lives that we could not do without. Kim Valek was three-time All-American in 1985, 86, and 87, becoming the first women’s All-American in any sport at Sewanee. Susan Steele Askew, C’86, was Sewanee’s first female athlete of the year in 1986. With no women’s teams competing from the fall of 1972 until the fall of 1974, Coach Nancy Bowman Ladd has fielded at least one team as head coach for 27 of the 33 years that Sewanee has had varsity women’s sports. Coach Conchie Shackelford recently earned her 365th win as the Sewanee women’s tennis team went 23-2 and finished third in the nation. Shackelford’s mark makes her the winningest coach in any sport (men or women) in Sewanee’s storied athletic history. The third place Tigers not only won the SCAC Championship, but their #3 national finish is the highest finish of any athletic team in Sewanee’s history. With gymnastics and synchronized swimming in our past, we look ahead to a bright future for our athletic department, with Sewanee women fielding 12 varsity sports and competing in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Confer- ence and nationally at the Division III level.

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William Porcher DuBose and the Quest for the Informed Priest

t h e R e v. D r . d O n a l d S . A r m e n t r o u t

The 2007 DuBose Lecture series, celebrating the Sesquicentennial Anniversary until July 31, 1894, he was acting dean of of the University of the South and sponsored by the School of Theology, will honor its the Theological Department and from July namesake, William Porcher DuBose — the “spiritual founder” of the Theological Depart- 31, 1894, until June 24, 1908, he served as ment of the University of the South and whom many consider one of the most original the second dean of the Theological Depart- and creative theologians in the Episcopal Church. This year’s featured speaker at the event ment. George E. DeMille, noted Episcopal to be held Oct. 18-19, 2007, is the Rev. Dr. Donald S. Armentrout, renowned scholar Church historian, was correct when he said and author. A member of the faculty of School of Theology since 1967, Dr. Armentrout the School of Theology “was for years mainly is the Bishop Quintard Professor of Dogmatic Theology, professor of church history and the elongated shadow of one great man, historical theology, associate dean for academic affairs, and director of the advanced degrees William Porcher DuBose.” program. The following article by Dr. Armentrout offers a glimpse into the life and mind DuBose taught in the theological semi- of William Porcher DuBose. nary for about 36 years, and is frequently referred to as the founder of the Theologi- t the meeting of the Board variety of other positions. From 1871 to cal Department. If the School of Theology A of Trustees of the University of the 1877, he was professor of moral science, and is the elongated shadow of William Porcher South on July 12, 1871, Vice Chancellor from 1878 to 1893, he was professor of eth- DuBose, let us concentrate on some of his Charles Todd Quintard (the second bishop ics and the evidences of Christianity. This ideas and themes which have shaped the of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee, was a position in the College of Arts and theological tradition of this school. DuBose 1865-1898), nominated the Rev. William Sciences. In the Theological Department, articulated his understanding of this Uni- Porcher DuBose, rector of Trinity Church, he was professor of systematic divinity and versity: “The University of the South was Abbeville, S.C., for the chaplaincy of the exegesis from 1872 to 1875; professor of ex- conceived in the most catholic spirit, and University of the South. DuBose was elected egesis and homiletics, 1876-1879; professor is designed to be in the truest sense broad and served as chaplain from July 12, 1871, of New Testament language and interpre- and comprehensive.” until July 30, 1883. tation, 1878-1907; and professor of Old Later, in an article of appreciation for From 1871 until his death on Aug. 18, Testament language and interpretation, John Bell Henneman, professor of English 1918, DuBose served the University in a 1872-1907. From September 12, 1893, and dean of the faculty of the College of

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Arts and Sciences and editor of The Sewanee Let me put in a word more of claim As a church University, it has this guarantee Review, DuBose expanded his understand- as to what Sewanee has been and against any one-sided development in mat- ing of the University as catholic, broad, and is — I mean now, in its relation to ters of doctrine or practice, against its ever comprehensive: the Church. From every point of becoming identified with any one school Sewanee stands for Christianity, but the compass we have been claimed or party in the Church, that it represents a for Christianity in its most catholic and disclaimed — high, broad, and wide constituency… .” and inclusive form. It is our desire ritualistic. There is only one thing DuBose was primarily a biblical exegete to stand for nothing in Christianity that Sewanee has been throughout, and teacher of the New Testament. Five of which is distinctively or exclusively as I have known it — and that is true his six major books were studies of the New our own, which does not belong to the core of Christianity, which is Testament. The Soteriololy of the New Testament by right to all; in a word, which is Christ; and to the divine historical (1892) is a New Testament theology. The sectarian. The sectarianism, which institution of Christianity, which is Gospel in the Gospels (1906) is a study of the we wish most of all to avoid is our the Church. This has kept us from synoptics. The Gospel According to St. Paul (1907) own sectarianism. If we ourselves being partisan in any direction, is primarily a study of Romans. High Priesthood value, and value rightly, what we and sympathetic and hospitable to and Sacrifice (1908) is a study of Hebrews, sometimes call our own order, our truth and good from all directions. and The Reason of Life (1911) is a study of the own ritual, our sacraments, creeds, We endured for years in silence Johannine literature. etc., — it is distinctly not as our the charge of ritualism, because we William Porcher DuBose was a Liberal own that we value them, but on the wanted what, and all that the Ritual Catholic and his elongated shadow has given ground that we believe them not to Revival had to give us. I deprecate the School of Theology a Liberal Catholic be our own, but the property, in now the surrender of one jot or spirit. His catholicity was expressed in his the truest and largest sense, of the tittle of what has been received, be- concern for unity, in his commitment to Catholic Church, that is to say, of all cause I believe that divine reality in the Scriptures as the Church’s book, in believing and baptized Christians, truth or life is inseparable from its his theology being rooted in the first seven whether they use them or have seen expression in the reality of worship. ecumenical councils, in his centering the- fit to disuse them. If we call ourselves I believe that all God’s signs are what ology in Jesus Christ, his incarnation, cross Churchmen, and by no narrower or they signify; His words are to us all and resurrection, and in his understand- more divisive name, it is not because that they mean, and not only empty ing of the Church and its sacraments as we arrogate to ourselves alone that meaning. the presence of Christ. His liberalism was more general designation, but be- The University of the South is to be expressed in his commitment to a critical cause we would pass by and ignore catholic, broad, comprehensive, inclusive, study of Scripture, in his recognition of the all human distinctions and sinful non-sectarian, centered in liturgical wor- development of doctrine, in his unend- divisions, and know ourselves only ship, and true to Christ and the Church. ing search for truth wherever it might be as members of the one Church of And it is to have academic freedom and be found, in his understanding of evolution, Christ, whose mission and aim is free of any party spirit. process and growth, and in his efforts to to include all and exclude none. DuBose said, “In every department of reconcile historic theology with modern What we have to strive for is to be learning the utmost freedom of thought ideas. We give thanks to God for Dubose’s in this truest sense Christian and and research is allowed and practiced, in- “special gifts of grace to understand the catholic, and to trust wholly and fluenced but not restrained or narrowed by Scriptures and to teach the truth as it is in only to the truth and reality of our the Christian character of the institution. Christ Jesus.” profession to accomplish the results we stand for. The University of the South, including William Porcher DuBose the Theological Department, was to be Lecture Series catholic, broad, and comprehensive, inclusive and non-sectarian. Again, DuBose The University of the South School of Theology explained what he meant the University to October 18–19, 2007 be and this time he added the dimension Speaker: The Rev. Dr. Donald S. Armentrout of worship:

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Reunions&Homecoming Associated Alumni November 2–3, 2007

Dear Fellow Alumni, Reunion class gifts planned

At our recent Volunteer Weekend on the Mountain, the Every five years, reunion classes at Sewanee alumni officers heard wonderful stories about what Sewanee make their way back to the Mountain to has come to mean for them from three recent graduates: re-engage friendships, tell stories, and Josh Harris, Amelia Nennsteil, and Merrill Stewart. In remember the days of old. Another vital addition, we were impressed with the commitment to ex- part of the celebration is the reunion class cellence expressed by Vice Chancellor Joel Cunningham, gift and the opportunity as a class to once Dean of Students Eric Hartman, and Director of Athletics again give back to Sewanee. Beginning in Mark Webb. mid-August, Sewanee alumni will begin We were pleased to hear of the continued success of The Sewanee Call cam- to receive information via their respective paign to raise $180 million to support endowment, capital projects and academic class chairs and the Associated Alumni programs. The Sewanee Fund gives you the opportunity to support The Sewanee regarding this fall’s reunions. Please go Call; I hope you will respond in the coming year. to The Sesquicentennial promises many special events in the next year. Please for more Fall Homecoming and Reunion come to the Mountain to be a part of this very special celebration. You will not information. want to miss the five-day series of events leading up to Founders’ Day on Oct. 9. Information will be coming to you soon, so mark your calendars. Reunion class chairs This is my last letter as President of the Associated Alumni. It has been an honor and a pleasure to serve you and the University. Thank you for your ongo- 2002 David Atkinson ing devotion to our alma mater. 1997 Courtland Eyrick 1992 Julie Curd Best Regards, 1987 Michael Harold Steve Williams 1982* Virginia Ottley Craighill Cacky Sullivan Oztekin Don Olmstead, C’81 Everett Puri President, Associated Alumni Mary Laura Hogeman Stagno 1977 James Bradford 1972 Yogi Anderson 1967 Bert Polk Associated Alumni Officers Hank Perrin Don E. Olmstead, C’81, President, [email protected] 1962 Bill Shasteen Andy Anderson, T’94, Vice President for Church Relations, [email protected] Paul Calame Susan D. Bear, T’94, Vice President for School of Theology, [email protected] 1957† Tom Darnall Joanne E. Boyd, C’77, Vice President for Reunions, [email protected] Vicky Vieth Bratton, C’88, Vice President for Regions, [email protected] * 25th Reunion Year Charles E. Brock, C’87, Vice President for Annual Fund, [email protected] James V. Burchfield, C’78, Vice President for Admissions, [email protected] † 50th Reunion Year Julie E. Curd, C’92, Vice President for Young Alumni, [email protected] Rondal K. Richardson, C’91, Vice President for Communications, [email protected] Jack W. Steinmeyer, C’71, Vice President for Planned Giving, [email protected] Read Carson Van de Water, C’86, Vice President for Career Services, [email protected]

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Sewanee alumni tour Greek ruins and islands Twenty-four Sewanee alumni and friends traveled to Athens (right) and the Greek islands of Kos and Nisyros for a 10-day excursion led by Nigel McGilchrist, the former director of Sewanee’s European Studies program. In addition to McGilchrist’s outstanding lectures and tours, spectacular scenery and ancient sites, the group enjoyed the good fellowship offered by their joint devotion to Sewanee.

Make plans now! Explore Rome and Umbria with Sewanee next year! May 16 – 25 and May 30 – June 8, 2008

Following the successful trip to Greece, noted art historian and author St. Peter’s Basilica and the Tiber River, Rome. Nigel McGilchrist will conduct two excursions to Rome and Umbria in May and June 2008. The tours will focus on lesser-known hidden gems of the city and the region including opportunities to visit cha- pels, gardens, residences and collections of art not normally open to the public. Cost and final details will be available in early September. To meet the expected demand for this trip, two excursions are being offered with each tour limited to 18 travelers. To reserve your place on either trip, rsvp online with a deposit of $300 per person at . Deposit is refundable until Feb. 1, 2008. The hill town of Todi in Umbria.

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Alumni hike the Perimeter Trail

Pictured here are some of the alumni and friends who took part in Sewanee’s first annual Perimeter Trail Weekend. Sewanee hikers came to walk the full or half trail and to learn more about the Domain as an important geological, academic and recreational resource of the University. The second annual Perimeter Trail Weekend in now being planned for next spring.

Alumni Volunteer Weekend 70 golfers hit the links

Volunteers from around the country were The 9th Annual Sewanee Golf Classic in Sewanee June 1–2 for the Alumni Vol- took place June 8 and 9. Over 70 golfers unteer Weekend. Attendees participated in enjoyed great golf and fellowship on the workshops for admissions, reunion plan- Mountain. Below are the tournament ning, class communications and alumni winners (left to right) Scott Mikel, C’89; events. Pictured below: Past Presidents in Chris Chamberlain; Todd Hurst, C’89; attendance led the gathered alumni in the and Paul Myers, C’89. The date for next Alma Mater. Left to right are Tom Rue, C’68, year’s tournament is June 13–14, 2008 Don Olmstead, C’81, Lisa Howick, C’81, — mark your calendar now and join us Don’t miss the 2007 Lee Glenn, C’57, and Jim Cate, C’47. for this exciting event. Sewanee Athletics Hall of Fame events

The 2007 class of inductees into the Sewanee Athletics Hall of Fame has been announced.

n See the full story on page 36 or visit the website for more details on how to join the celebration .

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Keep in Touch! had a distinguished 35-year career at 1931 the University of North Florida library, James O. Bass Sr. received an honor- departing as director of Library Public In class notes, you will read the news gathered by your class volunteers. ary degree at the 2007 commence- Services and systems librarian. Jones Thanks to them, you will be able to catch up on many old friends. ment ceremonies. Since 1934, he has reports that he is “already getting Join the fun and send your notes to your volunteer or to . Berry & Sims, PLC. in the near future. Buck Lyon-Vaiden and his wife, Lynn, live near the We have been recruiting class communications chairs for this year’s McDonogh School outside Baltimore, reunion classes and for all classes from 1990 and forward. The 1959 Md., where he heads the German communications chair for your class and his or her contact information Norman E. McSwain Jr., M.D. serves department. Lyon-Vaiden has taken is listed with your class notes. as editor-in-chief for the Prehospi- 19 groups to Germany since 1975. tal Trauma Life Support textbook. He has organized and performed We will continue also to accept your news, address updates, and He has been the editor-in-chief for in summer carillon recitals featur- photos at the following addresses: all six editions, beginning with the ing guest recitalists from around the first publication in 1983. Over the world. This summer will mark the 29th [email protected] years, it has been translated into series of recitals. He also plays for or eight languages. The current edition, school events and weddings held in Office of Communications and Marketing published in September 2006, has the chapel. Harry Noyes has compiled 735 University Avenue emerged as the complete trauma some of his thoughts, historical notes, Sewanee, TN 37383-1000 textbook for the prehospital provider and excerpts from both his and others’ and is used throughout the world for books on the website . Noyes and his assist the chair for your class, you can contact Sewanee magazine at version designed to meet the needs of wife, Maria, continue to do volunteer , 931.598.1286, or the postal address listed those prehospital providers function- work at the zoo and other areas. They above. ing throughout the war-torn Middle currently reside in San Antonio, Texas. East. In 37 countries, one-half million Richard Oberdorfer earned a master’s Deadlines and policies people have taken the Prehospital in history with a certificate in Latin Trauma Life Support course. American Studies from the University ■ Class notes deadlines fall about 10 weeks before the magazine is of Florida in 1970 and is now in his ReunionYear 31st year at Norfolk Academy. This published. November 2–3 ■ This issue contains news received by May 1; the deadline for the 1967 is his 22nd year as history depart- next issue, Winter 2008, is Nov. 1, 2007. Bill Allison is “having a blast” running ment chair. Oberdorfer sponsors the ■ Sewanee magazine’s policy is to publish news after the fact. Please the Texas Center for Actual Innocence school’s Science Fiction Club, “an let us know about weddings, births, and degrees received after they at University of Texas Law School. He interest which can be traced back to have happened. directs two clinics, the Criminal De- those evenings in ’66 when all of us fense Clinic and the Innocence Clinic. in Elliott gathered around the matron’s Alumni photograph policies Allison lives with his wife, Sherry, in TV to watch Star Trek.” Tom Price is a Austin, Texas. Phil Dyson has been pediatrician with Vanderbilt Integrated busy building a new pier after the Providers Pediatric Associates in ■ We accept photos of Sewanee groups at weddings and other hurricanes in Point Clear, Ala., where Hopkinsville, Ky. He received his M.D. special events. With the photo, send the names and class years of he lives with his wife, Peggy. Dyson is from University of Pennsylvania, M.P.A. all alumni pictured; birth date, parents’ names, and class years with honing his skills with drywall and a and Fellowship from the University of photos of children; dates and locations of events pictured. hammer. Jackson Fray joined Kathy Kansas, and did his residency at the ■ Digital and print photos must be clear and of good quality; color is and Bert Polk, along with 25 other University of Missouri in Jackson. Price preferred. Prints should be on glossy paper with no surface texture. Sewanee alumni, for a tour of a spe- enjoys playing the guitar, singing in ■ Digital photos must be jpegs of at least 250 pixels per inch. cial Netherlandish Diptych exhibit not the choir, and kayaking. Joel Smith Low resolution photos converted to higher resolutions are not yet open to the public at the National and his wife, Kit, live in Columbia, S.C., acceptable. Gallery of Art in D.C. The group was where he is dean of the Moore School ■ Please change the file name of your digital photo to the following hosted by Beth Sherrard, C’01, on of Business at the University of S.C. format: “Year_Name.jpg” — i.e. “02_Smith.jpg” the NGA staff. Sewanee professor In 2000, Smith retired from the Bank ■ Prints will be returned at your request. Please write your name and Gregory Clark acted as tour guide. of America to take this position. Lee address on the back of the photo. Buck Jardine is now at the embassy Thomas and his wife, Dorothy, are sent in Tunis. He has been a foreign service very special thanks in return for their officer since 1979, serving in nine generous contribution to Sewanee. overseas posts. Jardine and his wife, He donated $1 million, $750,000 Barbara, purchased a house in Bar of which will go toward the expan- Harbor, Maine, where they plan to re- sion and renovation of Snowden Hall. tire in the next year or two. Bob Jones Thomas will also match any gift to has retired and moved to Atlanta. He the renovation project dollar for dollar

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up to $750,000. He is the former CEO of Georgia Pacific and former 1970 chairman of Law Companies Envi- Romualdo “Romi” Gonzalez is ronmental Group. He held a number continuing his practice of law in New of posts in the Reagan Administra- Orleans. He is also producing “Car- tion, including administrator of the nival Latino VIII” with his son, Pablo Environmental Protection Agency. Gonzalez, C’00, and Kyle Sclafani, Jim Uden retired from banking in C’96. Carnival Latino is an interna- 2000 and now combines business tional music, food, and arts festival with pleasure as executive secretary that will take place in June. of the Tennessee Turfgrass Asso- ciation and Tennessee Golf Course Superintendents Association. Uden and his wife, Virginia, enjoy traveling 1971 and often spend time in Monteagle Herndon Inge during the summer. Alan Wittbecker Communications Chair recently published a book called [email protected] Global Emergency Actions, which is part three of Eutopias: Making Good Places Ecologically and Culturally. 1975 He is the senior ecologist for SynGeo Ellen West Hoveland is currently ArchiGraph, where he designs re- living in The Woodlands, Texas, with stored forests and wolf habitats from her 10-year-old Great Pyrenees dog, Alaska to Siberia. Sadie. She is a Global Geographic What do the women’s tennis team and the Information Systems (GIS) manager for Hess Corporate in Houston as Sewanee Annual Fund have in common? 1969 well as an active presenter and Waldrup Brown is celebrating the fifth author of papers related to GIS and anniversary of SEACAP Financial, Inc. data management in the petroleum in Memphis, Tenn. He and two friends industry. A big finish! founded it after his more than 25 years of experience in financial services, culminating in a vice 1976 Thank you for your gifts — we met our goal presidency of private banking at a Michelle Mauthe Harvey of $3.3 million ! The Annual Fund allows large regional bank and a presidency Communications Chair at a smaller bank. SEACAP offers a [email protected] the University to continue to deliver a top- full range of financial advisory and 107 Elm Avenue tier liberal arts education and a truly unique investment banking services for fam- Takoma Park, MD 20912 ily-owned businesses, but Brown spe- collegiate experience. cializes in debt placement services as well as financial and management 1980 advisory. Wallace “Wally” McCall Suzanne L. DeWalt has been elected The Sewanee Annual Fund has set its goal for recently swept the Poets of the Palm as a shareholder in the Pittsburgh 2007-08 — to raise $3.45 million by June 30. Beaches’ annual poetry contest in law firm of Sherrard, German & Kelly. the metered and rhymed division. She will focus her practice in the Of the 92 entries, his submissions area of commercial litigation, with Your gift will afford today’s students won first, second, third, and fourth particular emphasis on employ- the same opportunities you enjoyed places. Gray’s Sporting Journal has ment and construction matters. Bob also accepted one of his poems for Philp Jr. has been appointed vice while you were at Sewanee. publication. Despite calling it his “red president for the Tennessee Parks letter day in the life of a starving poet,” and Greenways Foundation in the McCall continues to practice law in middle Tennessee region. He serves Visit www.sewaneeonline.com Jupiter, Fla. He is highly amused that as volunteer for general counsel to or call 800.367.1179 his daughter, Margaret McCall, C’08, the foundation, and liaison to the coincidentally claimed his old suite in Tennessee Conservation Voters. Philp to make a pledge or gift to the Courts Hall as her place of residence also serves as volunteer general Sewanee Annual Fund. during her Sewanee magazine sum- counsel to the Old Hickory Watershed mer internship. Association. He earned his J.D. in Photo: Sewanee finishes third in the nation. 1986 at California Western School

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of Law in San Diego, Calif. and now Michele Davenport Salchow maintains a private law practice Communications Co-Chair with offices in Brentwood and Old [email protected] Hickory. 501 Eckford Dr. Troy, MI 48085

1981 Lisa Reynolds Sharp has opened Lee Parks an independent bookstore, Nightbird Communications Co-Chair Books in [email protected] Fayetteville, Ark., where she lives with 990 Rudolph Street her husband Robert Sharp and their Gainesville, GA 30501 three children.

Lindy Raad ReunionYear Communications Co-Chair 1987 November 2–3 [email protected] Virginia B. Martin has accepted 4189 Marley Court the position of administrator of the Rock Hill, SC 29732 MIT Enterprise Forum of Atlanta, an extension of the MIT Alumni Asso- “Appy” Apperson, C’83, completed 160 miles of the Appalachian Trail, from The Rev. Shannon Johnston has ciation. She manages the volunteer Springer Mountain to Fontana Dam, over the past two years. He has 1,940 been elected Bishop Coadjutor of boards and organizes educational miles left to go, which he says “will take 24 years at this pace.” Apperson hopes the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. events relating to new technolo- to finish when he retires at 70 years old. The Diocese of Virginia is the largest gies and entrepreneurship in the Episcopal diocese in the United Southeast. Steve Shankle and Mary States. Jo Livengood Shankle, C’89, live Yaala, which focuses primarily on the he is currently freelancing, working in Nashville with their two children. folk music of rural Mali, West Africa, with the Institute for Religion and Steve has been practicing anesthesia where he and his family lived for one Health at the Texas Medical Center, 1984 with his father, who retired this year. year. Carneal is still writing, and his and taking care of Iris. Love’s biggest Ed Fox is taking a break from teach- new fiction can be found in the professional news would be his one- ing to tour the East Coast doing Chesapeake Reader online. Kathryn man show called “The Rambling Nut.” stand-up comedy over the summer. 1988 Petersen Drey married Owen Drey in The show features his story of The tour schedule can be found at Mark See accepted a position as July 2005. They announce the birth fighting cancer without health . His closest a proposal manager with Akima of Gaines Wilburn DeLacy Drey, who insurance, and how his Sewanee show to Sewanee will be in Knoxville. Facilities Management Corporation in joins sisters Elizabeth (16), Margaret family got him through it. He came to Charlotte, N.C. (15), and Lauren (14). Elizabeth the Mountain in April to perform the Mebus Greenwood is leaving her show for the Sewanee community. 1985 work to stay at home with her Curtis Manning is serving as vice Becky Nelson Ferguson 1989 children, Rob (5) and William (2½). chancellor for Academic Affairs at 424 Carter Street Laura Millard Ladd She had worked for eight years in Nunez Community College in Libertyville, IL 60048 Communications Chair development at SMU and 18 years Chalmette, La. He has a three-year- 847/362-6747 104 Temple Hollow Circle for Dallas area nonprofit organiza- old daughter, Chloe. Mary Jo [email protected] Nashville, TN 37221 tions. Kelley Tyler Harris and her Livengood Shankle and Steve [email protected] husband, Phil, announce the birth of Shankle, C’87, live in Nashville with Robert Persons and his wife, Mary Nicholas Givens Harris on April 6, their two children. Mary Jo is a stay- Anne, are busy taking care of one- Robert Black, married to Kelley 2006. Catherine Hand Johnson is at-home mom and a community year-old twins and their prize-win- Black, C’91, accepted the head living in Pelham, N.Y. She announces volunteer. She celebrated her 40th ning show dogs. Persons is still ski football coaching job for Sewanee. the birth of Matthew James “Hew” on birthday with a surprise party thrown patrolling for Keystone. He and his He has a son, Aubrey, and a November 22, 2006. He joins older by Steve in February. Sewanee wife are trying to get an obedience daughter, Jenna. Buck Butler will be siblings Whit (9), Woods (7), and friends in attendance included title on their champion mother dog. the new editor of Sewanee magazine, Mattie (3). Eric “Doc” Love and his Christina Clark Roberts; Clay “Unfortunately,” he says, “she is not beginning with the next issue. wife, Karen, announce the birth of Iris Bailey, C’87; Brooks Corzine, C’87; really obedient.” Previously, he served as the senior Elizabeth Love. He earned his Ph.D. and Heather Beeman Wood, C’90. editor of Scuba Diving Magazine in in theatre from the University of Dianne Farrar Smith lives in Savannah, Ga. Jack Carneal lives in Missouri-Columbia, taught at UM–St. Minneapolis, Minn., where she works 1986 Baltimore, Md., with his wife, Chris, Louis, and helped create a new for the state of Minnesota. She is Virginia Hipp Phillippi and two sons. He is a lecturer in the theatre and dance department and studying to become a Websphere Communications Co-Chair English department at Towson Univer- degree. Love has directed plays in administrator. James Stevenson [email protected] sity and still plays the drums with his New York City twice, in addition to his returned to the U.S. last summer 41 Ginger Gold Drive band, the Anomoanon. He has production schedule for the following eight years in the United Simpsonville, SC 29681 started a record label called Yaala university. He moved to Texas, where Kingdom. He was assistant curator

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gents,1935–1937, an alumni trustee from 1946–1948, and president of the Associated Alumni, 1946–1948. A 1973 University press release states that Trammell was also Sewanee’s president of the Sewanee Club of New York, heading “a coterie of Sewanee alumni in New York which included Bishop William T. Manning, Dean Huger W. Jervey of Columbia Law School, General Mark R. Beckwith, authority on military law, and J. Albert Woods, first media President of Commercial Solvents.” Significantly, after his wife Cleo died in 1972, Trammell took a room at the Sewanee Inn for what would be the last year of his life. That biographical fact, and the generous total of his gifts to the University (equivalent to more than half of the cost of Bishop’s mogul Common), argues a deep devotion to his alma mater. Despite some evidence surviving in the University archives about Arthur Ben Chitty’s efforts to get a book-length biography of Niles Trammell written by Walt Bloeser, that work never materialized, Niles Trammell, C’18 apparently because of some weighty opposition generated from within NBC’s public relations office. B y D av i d b O w m a n So it’s tempting to rely on this charming little vignette from the July 22, 1940, issue of Time headlined “New Broom, No Sweep”: When Lenox Riley Lohr took over the presidency of NBC four years ago, he abolished the job of executive vice president, gathered the management reins tightly in his fists. Not until January 1939 did he relax his grip. Then into here’s a bronze plaque in the east corridor of Bishop’s Com- the recreated executive vice-presidency went shrewd, soft- T mon which notes that “The Trammell Communication Center is on the spoken, Georgia-born Niles Trammell, longtime head of floor above, dedicated in grateful memory of Cleo and Niles Trammell of New York and NBC’s Central Division (headquarters: Chicago). Last week, Miami Beach, Florida … In tribute to their friend, Bishop Juhan …” Trammell stepped into the shoes vacated by Lohr when he Niles Trammell, C’18, was the University of the South’s first resigned last month to become president of the Chicago media mogul. As president of the National Broadcasting Corpora- Museum of Science and Industry. tion from 1940 to 1949, and chairman of NBC’s board until 1952, More convivial than his predecessor, enormously popular his network had more than 150 radio stations scattered across the with his staff, new President Trammell is no front-office U.S.A. So it’s fitting that his bequest to the University, to help grow window dressing. Rated a supersalesman in Chicago, he its endowment, helped make a home for the student radio station, distinguished himself there by boosting NBC billings to WUTS, and student publication offices. over a million a month, just twelve times as much as the The Alumni Directory notes that Leander Niles Trammell was born New York headmen expected him to get when they sent him in Marietta, Ga., attended Sewanee Military Academy, entered the west in 1928. Big feather in Trammell’s Chicago cap was a University in 1915, was a member of the Kappa Alpha fraternity, “million-dollar” contract he wangled with Pepsodent, which then entered military service before he would have graduated with transformed Amos ’n’ Andy from a sustaining show into a the Class of 1918. Cap and Gown’s 1918 annual lists him as “Candidate national institution in 1929. A great one for soap operas, for B.S.; Senior Ribbon Society; Manager of Football Team, ’17; he can still point with pride to such Trammell-promoted Pan-Hellenic; Athletic Board of Control; Junior German; and shows as Clara, Lu ’n’ Em, Fibber McGee and Molly, Betty Senior German Club.” and Bob, Ma Perkins. Other sources note that Trammell was an army lieutenant, and When Trammell was a boy down in Marietta, Ga., he stayed in the army until joining RCA at age 29. In 1923 he mar- was known formally as Leander Niles, informally as “Pud.” ried Elizabeth Huff — his commander Major General Charles A member of a Mark Twainish clan of moppets called the G. Morton’s stepdaughter — then was divorced and married Cleo “Dirty Dozen,” Pud was a bit on the model side until the boys Murphy Black in 1941. persuaded him to smoke a few cigarettes, toss off a couple Trammell also served as one of the University’s nine re- of noggins of beer.

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At 18, he was sent to Sewanee Military Academy, finished his schooling at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. From college he went into the regular Army, was presently attached to the San Francisco staff of wealthy General Charles G. Morton, whose stepdaughter he married in 1923. Same year he met David Sarnoff who raved so much about radio’s possibilities that Trammell asked him for a job. Now 46, Trammell is persnickety about his clothes, neat as a pin around his office. Now he makes over $50,000 a year, lives on Park Avenue, likes to play golf, shoot crap, go fishing. Easily accessible in his NBC office, Trammell has a reputation for softheartedness, rarely fires a man until he has tried him on all kinds of assignments. As a new broom, he expects to do no drastic sweeping. When asked about his politics, he becomes a bit Socratic. “When you are born in Georgia,” he inquires, “what are you usually?”

It must be remembered, as a gloss on the Time piece, that Gen- eral David Sarnoff was president of the Radio Corporation of America, and that NBC was a broadcasting service owned by RCA and founded in 1926. At the end of the 1940’s, it looked like NBC and its CEO were in trouble. Here’s a clip from another Time (March 14, 1949) brief headed “The Future of NBC”: Niles Trammell, wearing a United Cerebral Palsy Telethon button on his lapel, is pictured with “Buffalo Bob” Smith and Clarabelle the Clown from the Howdy NBC President Niles Trammell had a job of explaining Doody children’s television program and a young fan of the show. to do. In recent months, CBS had charmed away five of his top attractions (Jack Benny, Amos ‘n’ Andy, Red Skelton, Frank Sinatra, Edgar Bergen), beat him to a big sixth (Bing edition of 1957, noted the Trammells’ address as 6650 Roxbury Crosby). NBC had lost talent to Columbia before, but never Lane, La Gorce Island, Miami Beach. in such great clumps. The network’s 164 affiliated stations There are a couple of riveting photos of Niles Trammell in the were uneasy and fidgety. NBC picture book of its wartime broadcasting service called Four In Chicago’s Stevens Hotel last week — with 11 of his 14 Chimes (1944). Late in 1943, he is seen standing on rubble, near vice presidents nodding approval — suave Niles Trammell St. Paul’s, in war-ravaged London (p. 170) and walking with Army soothed the affiliates’ angers and anxieties, sent them home brass somewhere near one of the Italian battle fronts (p.171). convinced that NBC is still the biggest thing in radio since Early in 1944, Trammell and his staff authored a 21-page mani- the invention of the crystal set. festo addressed to NBC Affiliated Stations describing what were NBC was not limiting itself, said Trammell, to buying the prospects for moving broadcasting into the Age of Television in up a few expensive shows “for this season at the expense of the post-war era. It notes that in addition to NBC’s pioneer televi- the future.” That other network, he noted, had had to bor- sion station, WNBT, which began operating on an experimental row $5,000,000 to bring off its coups. And besides, radio basis in 1931, there were a grand total of eight other TV stations in couldn’t be “satisfied indefinitely with the same material, operation on a limited basis nationwide. Particularly interesting the same performers, and the same programs.” is a map, drawn up by AT&T/Bell System, of the proposed coaxial cable routes and the cities they would connect in the 1945-1950 That same year, Trammell got kicked upstairs to be NBC’s period. chairman of the board. In 1952 he left NBC, to become president This document argues, among other things, that Niles Tram- of the Biscayne Television Corporation, which operated WCKT / mell was as comfortable in the Future of Television as he was in WCKR, based in Miami, Fla. The Alumni Directory, in its centennial Radio’s Golden Age.

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providing direct counsel and 5 Grouse Run Road government affairs services on Lexington, VA 24450 legislative and regulatory issues. 540-462-2864 Bradford Ladd and Francie Ladd, Angi Johnson Everett announces the birth of Mimi Lee Everett on Oct. 19,

C’92, announce the birth of Sarah Ruffin Ladd on Dec. 15, 2006. Sarah has been warmly received by her 2006, in Asheville, N.C. Everett is sister, Campbell (5), and brother, pleased to stay home with Mimi for Edward (3). now, while she starts her new life Ben Ziegler, C’92; Belle Ziegler, C’96; Molly Dargan, C’03; Jennie Williamson, coaching and professional C’94; Tim Dargan, C’70. ReunionYear counseling business. Paige Parvin 1992 November 2–3 was recently named the editor of Baron Jordan Emory magazine. She lives in Atlanta Communications Co-Chair with her partner, Marita, and their for the Hardy Collections at the [email protected] 10-year-old son, Tucker. University of Oxford Botanic Gardens. 1990 578 Montgomery Ferry Road Stevenson is currently residing in Liz Edsall McLaurin Atlanta, GA 30324 Florida. John Swallow was promoted Communications Chair 1994 to J.T. Kimbrough ’26 Professor of [email protected] Patrick Whelchel Susie Davis Mathematics and Humanities at Communications Co-Chair Communications Co-Chair Davidson College and is co-directing William Anthony Hay has recently [email protected] [email protected] the first year of Davidson’s Humani- co-edited a book with the University 241 Coventry Rd. 3216 Post Woods Drive, Apartment K ties program. Matthew Tolleson of Missouri Press entitled Is There Decatur, GA 30030 Atlanta, GA 30339 married Caroline McLean on Nov. 11, Still a West? The Future of the 2006 in Atlanta, Ga. Sewanee friends Atlantic Alliance. The text explores David Freeland is working on his Elizabeth “Buffy” Mackenzie, in attendance included Luther whether or not the cluster of nations second book, an historical guide to Communications Co-Chair Richardson; Stephen Christie; long known as “the West” remains a the ruins of New York’s great 19th- [email protected] Martin Evans; Brad Dethero; valid construct in modern political and 20th-century pleasure palaces, 1786 Casselberry Ct. William Shelor; Bradford Ladd and and cultural affairs. including automats, night clubs, Orange Park, FL 32003 Tripp Gulliford, both C’91. The theaters, and dance halls. This book couple resides in Atlanta, where Tolle- will be published in the fall of 2008 Leah Amerling-Bray was married son works with Turner International. 1991 by New York University Press. Francie to Scott Bray in May 2006, and Elizabeth Copeland Wilmer and her Melanie Urick Ladd and Bradford Ladd, C’91, they live in Alexandria, Va. She is a Communications Chair announce the birth of Sarah Ruffin Lieutenant Commander in the United 246 Bronxville Road Ladd on Dec. 15, 2006. Ben Ziegler States Navy and is in Mandarin Bronxville, NY 10708 attended the University of Oxford, Chinese language training, preparing [email protected] followed by Harvard Law School, for a three-year diplomatic posting and he has now settled back into to the U.S. embassy in Beijing as the Graham Hill has formed the Ice his hometown of Florence, S.C. to U.S. Assistant Naval Attaché to Chi- Miller Strategies LLC, along with co- practice law with Haynsworth, Sinkler na. Ali Burney has switched political founder, Clayton Heil. Ice Miller & Boyd. He is chairman of the board parties and is now a Democrat. He Strategies will provide high-level for the Pee Dee Land Trust and he has been in Amsterdam working for strategic services and government has been involved in many aspects Clifford Chance US LLP since April. husband, Wes, announce the birth of affairs counsel to corporations, of conservation statewide. Kimberly Baum Cook is married to Ashley Elizabeth Wilmer on Jan. 21, industry associations, and non-profit Damian Cook. She works as the HR 2007. organizations with interests regarding Business Partner for Worldspan, a the United States Congress, the 1993 travel technology company. Susie White House, and Federal Agencies. Jonathan Webster Weston Davis, class communications Hill is responsible for the firm’s Communications Chair chair, sends thanks to her committee overall management, as well as [email protected] and to everyone who sent informa-

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tion for their class notes. They have Oil Company to take a job in the beginning his third year of a where Louie is the associate had a greater response than there legal department of Saudi Aramco, GynOncology fellowship at M.D. administrator of Osceola Regional is space for here in the magazine, the largest oil company in the world. Anderson Cancer Center. He success- Medical Center. Jonathan Meiburg so the unedited version was sent to He and his wife, Katrina, will soon be fully defended his thesis this spring, was featured on NPR on March 15, the class via e-mail. Marilyn Hulsey moving from Muscat, Oman to Dhah- and he will earn a master’s degree in 2007, along with some of his music. Dixon and husband, Jim Dixon, have ran, Saudi Arabia. Scott Remington cancer biology. They are both active Brandi Poole has been coaching two boys, James (6) and William (3). and his wife welcomed their third at Palmer Memorial Episcopal women’s basketball at Bowling Green Jim is vice president of development child, Harold Lane Remington, on Church. Kyle Sclafani recently State University, a Division I school in for Arlington Properties, a commercial Jan. 23, 2007. became an associate with the New Ohio. The team recently made it to real estate company. He currently has Orleans law firm ofR omualdo the Sweet 16 in the NCAA tourna- projects in Jacksonville, Fla. Marilyn Gonzalez, C’70. Sclafani is in a band ment by upsetting Vanderbilt in the is active in an early intervention 1995 called “MNSKP” with fellow Sewanee second round. Poole has been an program for children with develop- Katherine Israel graduate, Pablo Gonzalez, C’00. All assistant at BG for six years. Martha mental delays. Jared Forrester’s Communications Chair three are producing “Carnival Latino Hart Rhodes has accepted a new family business Forrester Farms was [email protected] VIII,” an international music, food, position on the securities team at named 2006 Alabama Farm of the 771 Madeline Ln. and arts festival. John Sonfield and Motley Rice, LLC in Mount Pleasant, Year. Stan Herring lives in Birming- Auburn, AL 36832 his wife, Meredith, live in Florence, S.C. Alec Robinson joined the South ham, Ala. with his wife, Sally, and S.C. He is a partner with Pee Dee Carolina Bar and the 14th Judicial their son, Morgan “Sawyer” Herring. Nikki Etheridge Merritt and Will Surgical group, and he specializes in Circuit Solicitor’s Office in Beaufort Stan is an attorney with his own law Merritt, C’96, live in Houston, Texas, general and trauma surgery. John as an assistant solicitor (prosecutor). practice, specializing in consumer where Nikki is an assistant teacher Wallace and Anne Lacy Boswell He moved from Charleston to Port law. Steve Knapp lives in Chicago to a preschool class. They are both Wallace, C’97, Royal. Anne Lacy Boswell Wallace with his wife, Laura, and his boys, active at Palmer Memorial Epis- announce the and John Wallace, C’96, announce Langston and Lachlan. Steve reports copal Church, and Nikki has been birth of John the birth of John Beveridge “Jack” that he spends his work time ped- elected to serve on the vestry. Hilary Beveridge “Jack” Wallace Jr. on October 13, 2006. dling lasers to research scientists at Covington Szalay is working as the Wallace Jr. on Anne Lacy will stay at home with Midwestern universities and learned marketing manager of the Literary October 13, Jack. a bit about topics such as coherent Guild, Mystery Guild, and the original 2006. John control, multi-photon microscopy and Book-of-the-Month Club, in Garden works for surface enhanced Raman spectro City, N.Y. StudioNow as 1998 scopy. Wilbur L. Matthews II formed the director of sales, marketing, and Lauren Auttonberry Vaquero Funds in San Antonio, business development in Nashville. Communications Chair Texas, a Hedge Fund specializing in 1996 [email protected] Third World and Emerging Markets. Brooke Vaughan Schroeder ReunionYear 207 Magnolia St. He remains a principal in Bloom Communications Co-Chair 1997 November 2–3 Edwards, MS 39066 Maternity, in San Antonio, a retail [email protected] Land Deleot shop for expectant mothers. Aaron 2509 Fairfax Ave. Communications Chair Sara Anderson Donahoe and her McCollough is married to Suzanne Nashville, TN 37212 [email protected] Chapman. Aaron is in his final year Colliers Turley Martin Tucker of dissertation work for his Ph.D. in Diane O’Bryan Johnston Brokerage and Leasing English at the University of Michi- Communications Co-Chair 5250 Virginia Way, Suite 100 gan. He also has an M.F.A. in poetry [email protected] Brentwood TN 37027 and three of his books of poems 15 Jerusalem Road Dr. 615-312-2925 have been published. The latest, Cohasset, MA 02025 615-312-2958(FAX) Little Ease, came out in September. Travis McDonough and wife, Teresa, Roe Elam and Anne Tolly Elam, Steven Bruce and his wife, Sue, celebrated their 12th anniversary in C’99, announce the birth of Oscar announce the 2006. They have two children: Sofia Elam on May 17, 2007. Lindsey birth of Walker husband, Drew, announce the birth (5) and Andrew (2). He works at the Delaplaine McCoy is living in the David Bruce on of Charlotte Taylor Donahoe on April law firm Miller & Martin PLLC, and Bahamas and working as executive January 15, 20, 2007. Errett Neil Kirkland and he worked on a significant case in director of Friends of the Environ- 2007. Louie her husband, Jamie, announce the Florida where he acted as co-counsel ment, a nonprofit organization. She Caputo and his birth of Sara Neil with Ted Pina, C’92. McDonough and her husband, Matt McCoy, C’00, wife, Abby, Kirkland on Jan. and his family visited Ireland where, are starting a film company called announce the 3, 2007. Leigh through an unlikely series of events, Loggerhead Productions. Their first adoption of two Anne Peace they found themselves having coffee effort will be an environmental biological siblings from Guatemala, published her with the Lord Mayor of Belfast in education series for the Bahamas Catalina Marisol (3) and Louis first book of his parlor shortly after their plane Ministry of Education. Will Merritt Gustavo (11 months) on Feb. 9, poems, entitled landed. Will Montjoy resigned as the and Nikki Etheridge Merritt, C’95, 2007 (see photo on next page). The Green and Deputy General Counsel of the Oman live in Houston, Texas, where Will is family currently lives in Orlando, Fla., Helpless.

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He is also a candidate for a 1999 doctorate degree in medicine from Jay Donnelly the Northwestern University Feinberg Communications Chair School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill. [email protected] Bessay is one of 30 people nation- P.O. Box 23287 wide awarded the American Chattanooga, TN 37422 Association for Thoracic Surgery Summer Internship through the Anne Tolly Elam and Roe Elam, University of Cincinnati Medical C’96, announce the birth of Oscar Center for the summer of 2007. Elam on May 17, 2007. Kelly Erica Black is the producer and Johnson is currently living in Durham, director of photography on her first N.C. and was accepted into North feature film, “Reclaiming the Bride.” Carolina College of Veterinary The film is due out in late 2007. Medicine. Mary LaRoche Pollitt Leah Braswell and her partner, Erica, Price and her husband, Ben, announce the birth of Stella Martha Webb Galyon, C’98, and her husband, L.A., announce the birth of their LaRoche Price on daughter, Hallie Jane Galyon (left), on Sept. 27, 2006. Shannon Ware Smith Oct. 9, 2005. and Shepley Smith, both C’98, welcomed their daughter, Corinne Ashley Smith They also (right), on Aug. 23, 2006. Martha Galyon says “they are excited to be roommates announce the in Sewanee’s class of 2028.” opening of StudiLaRoche Productions, Inc., a full-service recording studio in announce the birth of Ross Andrew Atlanta, Ga. Mary is a massage Braswell on Dec. 13, 2006. Braswell therapist and yoga instructor in is in her third year of radiology Decatur. Stephanie Harkess residency in Little Rock, Ark. Wes Robertson and her husband, Cooper, Butler married Allison Butler on announce the March 26, 2007. He is currently birth of Alice working as a financial advisor. Wintersmith Priscilla Chapman and her husband, Robertson on Teddy, announce Jan. 21, 2007. the birth of The family lives Robert Austin in Greensboro, Chapman on N.C., where Nov. 20, 2006. Cooper is Shannon Conley completing a judicial clerkship for is a second-year the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. They will postdoctoral be moving back to Louisville, Ky. in fellow in the August. department of cell biology at the University of Oklahoma Health Louie Caputo, C’97, and his wife, Abby, announce the adoption of two biologi- Science Center. Erin Wright Allen cal siblings from Guatemala, Catalina Marisol (3) and Louis Gustavo (11 2000 Finzer and her husband, Bert, months) on Feb. 9, 2007. The family currently lives in Orlando, Fla., where Louie Brian Fiore announce the birth of Sarah Blanche is the associate administrator of Osceola Regional Medical Center. Communications Chair on March 4, 2007. Erin is completing [email protected] her Ph.D. in Spanish literature at the 922 Manor Rd., #322 University of Kansas. Pablo Gonzalez Alexandria, VA 22305 is an attorney with the multi-state firm, Phelps Dunbar. His father, Courtney Askew is working (and Romualdo “Romi” Gonzalez, C’70, skiing) in Jackson, Wyo. She surfed in continues his practice of law in New Mexico from November 2006 to May Orleans and Kyle Sclafani, C’96, 2007. Emmanuel Paye Bessay recently became an associate with recently received his doctorate the elder Gonzalez’s firm. Pablo and degree in molecular physiology and Kyle are also busy with their band, biophysics from Vanderbilt University. “MNSKP,” which plays at many popular local venues. They are joining

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Romi in producing, “Carnival Latino VIII,” an international music, food, 2001 and arts festival in June. John Elizabeth Pate Foley Kleckner married Wendy Jones, Communications Chair C’01, on March 22, 2007 in [email protected] Hummock Beach, Fla. Anna Thomas 1200 North Herndon St. #156 Koeppel and her husband, Daniel Arlington, VA 22201 announce the birth of Susan Grale Koeppel in 2006. Koeppel is Suzanne Garnett Allen and her finishing her residency in Pediatrics husband, John, announce the birth at Washington University in St. Louis. of Jackson Garnett Allen on June 9, Matt McCoy and his wife, Lindsey 2006. Prince L. Bell Jr. is a member Delaplaine, C’96, are starting a film of the U.S. Navy on the aircraft company called Loggerhead carrier, USS Ronald Reagan. He is Productions. Their first effort will be stationed in San Diego, Calif., as an an environmental education series electrical engineer. Haley Burton is for the Bahamas Ministry of attending the University of Wyoming Education. Kate McKenna had been College of Law. After graduation, she working in Italy two years when she plans to move to Denver. Leigh Cut- Kristin Queen, C’00, married Matthew Shaffer at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, accepted a position as the college ler moved from Houston to Seattle in San Antonio, Tex., on August 5, 2006. Front row: Amy Black Hoffman, C’01; counselor at the American School of July 2006 after receiving a master’s Kristen Hanzel, C’99; Cotter Hanzel; Liddell Shannon, C’00. Second row: Asuncion, Paraguay. This summer, in public history from the University Martha Lynn Coon, C’00; Michael Hoffman, C’00, T’04; Rashmi Becker Grace, McKenna plans to finish her master’s of Houston. She is working for a C’00; Kelly Jarrett, C’00; Kristin Queen Shaffer; Matthew Shaffer; Cliff Hortin- degree in English literature at the small consulting firm that special- stein, C’07; Summer Martins, C’00; Katherine Queen, C’07; Katherine Doss, Bread Loaf School of English at izes in historical and archaeological C’00; Rachel Foreman, C’00. Middlebury College, where she will research for cultural and natural re- room once again with Jessie source management projects. Laura Aaron D. Lawyer has a new job with Palmore Yancey, C’03. Jay Perry and Cook Eichenberger and Troy Robert ReunionYear First Citizen’s Bank in Nashville as a Emily Thompson Perry, C’01, Eichenberger, C’02, announce the 2002 November 2–3 field credit analyst.Stephen Abra- announce the birth of Madeline birth of Seth Robert Eichenberger on David J. Atkinson ham “Abe” Mikell moved to Stuart’s Grace Perry in December of 2003. June 24, 2006. Jennifer Dickson Communications Co-Chair Draft, Va., in the summer of 2006. He Jay is currently in law school at the Friedenstein received her master’s in [email protected] is teaching social studies and coach- University of Colorado. Norman audiobiology and speech- 1712 17th Street, NW #2 ing football and wrestling. Knox Adams Pickron and his wife, language pathology at the University Washington, DC 20009 Vannagell Pfister graduated from Margaret Daniel Pickron, C’02, of Memphis. She is working to help (646) 320-9442 the University of Kentucky College of moved to New York’s Upper West adults with speech and language Law in 2004. Pfister practiced law for Side from South Carolina. Norman deficiencies. Jennifer married James Jane Harrison Chapman Fisher two years and was recently hired by earned his master’s degree from Friedenstein on Aug. 27, 2005. Jason Communications Co-Chair the Fayette Alliance, an organization Wake Forest University and is a risk Green married Kimberly Joy Moser [email protected] promoting farmland preservation and manager for Group One Trading. Tim on Nov. 3, 2004. He announces the 108 Windstone Drive infill redevelopment. Emily Thompson Truitt married Amanda Truitt on birth of Lindsay Emma Green on Oxford, MS 38655 Perry and Jay Perry, C’00, announce March 27, 2004. They announce the Feb. 17, 2006. Green is currently the birth of Madeline Grace Perry in birth of Kylee Marie Truitt on Sept. working at Wilkes Family YMCA as Margaret Boone is currently December of 2003. Jennifer Dock- 14, 2005. He is currently an upper the sports and teen director. Scott attending Middle Tennessee School stader Rogers has taken a job with school mathematics teacher and a B. Hall is pursuing his master’s in of Anesthesia. Crile Crisler and his the Mississippi Institutions of Higher basketball coach at Kentucky business administration at Vanderbilt wife, Julie, announce the birth of Learning as the Communications and Country Day School. Howard University. Wendy Jones married John Wesley Crile Marketing associate director. Richard “Martin” Wilkinson’s business, Kleckner, C’00, on March 22, 2007, Crisler on Jan. Steele Yancey and Jessie Palmore Martin & Outdoor Sports, received in Hummock Beach, Fla. Courtney 26, 2007. Crile Yancey, C’03, were married in July the Marketing Key of the Year from Kelly received an honorable mention has a master’s 2006 at St. Paul’s in Richmond, Va. Cascade Designs. He lives in S.C. (fourth place) in the annual Portman degree in Richard is a sales representative for with his wife, Lauren. Prize Competition in the Georgia healthcare DePuy Orthopedics. Margaret Currie Institute of Technology Architecture administration “Betsy” Zarzour and her husband, Department. The Portman Prize rec- and is working Taylor, announce the birth of Grace ognizes the best work from the grad- as the director of Elizabeth Zarzour on July 31, 2005. uate design studios. This year, the patient transport for Le Bonheur The family still lives in Raleigh, N.C., focus was on a design for mixed-use Children’s Medical Center. Julie is a where Margaret teaches high school housing along the proposed Atlanta respiratory therapist at Le Bonheur. mathematics and science. BeltLine, a 22-mile rail and trail loop. The family currently lives in Bartlett, Tenn. Troy Robert Eichenberger and

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Laura Cook Eichenberger, C’01, Anderson Neighbors Studies in the Miami Cuban-Ameri- announce the birth of Seth Robert Communications Co-Chair can Community.” David C. Mushal 2006 Eichenberger on June 24, 2006. [email protected] married Annie Blackwell on March 3, Travis Ayers is finishing his first year Melanie Miller Leithauser recently 4172 Winston Way 2007. Amy Robertson and Blake Va- as a resource teacher and football made the transition to self- Birmingham, AL 35213 den, C’02, were married on June 30, coach at First Baptist Church School employment as a massage therapist 2007. Elta Shulman is completing of Charleston, S.C., and is about to and yoga instructor. She and her Nelson Meriwether Byrd is currently her second year of vet school at UT begin medical school at Medi- husband, Jimmy, have just purchased working for the U.S.A. Trading Chicago College of Veterinary Medicine. Taylor cal University of South Carolina in their first house.Margaret Daniel Board of Trade. Heather Danson Caillet Sutherland married Dessa August. Christina Foster is working Pickron and her husband, Norman is graduating from the University of Fejta on May 13, 2007. for the State of Tennessee Depart- Adams Pickron, C’00, recently Colorado Health Sciences Center ment of Children’s Services in moved to New York’s Upper West Side with a medical doctorate and going Franklin County, Tenn. Todd Sisson is from South Carolina. Margaret is a to the University of Texas at Houston 2005 a graduate student at Angelo State merchandiser for Polo Ralph Lauren’s to do her residency in obstetrics and J. Bradley Cherry University in San Angelo, Texas. He golf and tennis lines. Carlton gynecology. Jessie Palmore Yancey Communications Chair is working on a master’s degree in Schwab is completing his second and Richard Steele Yancey, C’01, [email protected] Industrial Psychology. Brian Swain year of medical school at LSU School were married in July 2006 at St. 309 Meeting St., Apt. No. 2 is currently working on his Ph.D. in of Medicine. Sarah Shellman is the Paul’s in Richmond, Va. Jessie works Charleston, SC 29401 Ancient Greek and Roman history at development coordinator at Atlanta’s as an English and history teacher at Ohio State University. Habitat for Humanity. Jennifer “Dick” the Harpeth Hall School. William W. Ivey, C’05, graduated with Skipper is teaching high school art a master’s degree in El Salvador. She finds it exciting to in Spanish from live in another country and learn its 2004 Middlebury language and culture. Blake Vaden Rebecca Daubert College and is and Amy Robertson, C’04, were Communications Co-Chair currently a married on June 30, 2007. [email protected] visiting professor 649 Fort Johnson Rd. at Escuela Charleston, SC 29412 Nuestra Señora 2003 del Pilar in Rachel Eason John Thomas Madrid, where he teaches English. He Communications Co-Chair Communications Co-Chair plans to remain in Madrid through the [email protected] [email protected] summer of 2008 before he returns to 1700 21st Ave., South #204 the U.S. for further studies. Nashville, TN 37212 Annah Kelley has completed her master’s degree in International Ad- ministration. She wrote her practicum report on “The Role of the Institute for Cuban and Cuban-American

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O. Morgan Hall, C’39, T’46, of Louisville, Ky., died on May 19, 2007. Morgan was known as “Mr. Sewanee,” in Louisville, where he served the Sewanee Club for many years and encouraged countless students to apply to and attend Sewanee. He was formerly a trustee of the Univer- sity; served as president and vice president of the Associated Alumni; Haywood C. Emerson, C’40, of Wilm- capitol, the McDonald Observatory, and was active in the Sewanee Clubs of Atlanta (president 1965), Lou- ington, N.C., died on April 18, 2007. Christ Church Cathedral, and the Uni- isville, Chicago, St. Louis and New York. Hall was honored with the John After graduating Phi Beta Kappa, versity of Houston Architecture Build- R. Crawford Distinguished Alumni Award in 2001. He donated the Hall he spent a year at the University of ing. Bowles’ loves included poker, old Trophy, which annually recognizes outstanding class giving to Sewanee. North Carolina at Chapel Hill before movies, music, and antique pocket Hall was a native of Greenville, Miss., retired vice president of sales enlisting in the Army Air Corps. He watches. Survivors include his wife, for Joshua L. Bailey & Co. of New York, a member of St. Francis in the participated in the invasions of North Louise, and his daughter, Caroline Fields Episcopal Church and a World War II Army veteran. He is survived Africa and Sicily. He then transferred Bowles Furlong, C’75. by his wife of 64 years, Frances Hall, one son, O. Morgan Hall Jr., C’69, to the Transport Command, where his daughter, Holly Mason, C’73, and several grandchildren. he spent the remainder of the war Robert S. Burgins Jr., N’44, C’47, delivering B-29s to Southeast Asia. of Anderson, S.C., died on Aug. 19, After the war, Emerson married and 2006. moved to Vicksburg, Miss. to begin a John F. Blankenship, C’49, of Hen- 30-year career with the Vendo Com- William H. Blackburn, C’48, of Cam- derson, Nev., died on Jan. 2, 2007. completed his bachelor’s degree at pany. Survivors include his wife of 56 den, Tenn., died on April 4, 2007. He A veteran of the Navy, Blankenship the University of Texas at Austin in years, Elizabeth, and his three sons. was a physician, war veteran, public practiced medicine in Phoenix for 1957, and shortly thereafter took up servant, and conservationist. He over 30 years. He loved telling a management of the family ranch in Douglas Willis Wentworth Miner, graduated from Vanderbilt University good joke and was proud of being a Coahuila, Mexico. Survivors include C’42, of Suffield, Conn., died on School of Medicine, where he was private pilot. his wife, Julia. Feb. 9, 2007. After serving with the president of his graduating class and Army Air Corps in World War II, Miner later chief resident. Blackburn was Robert Sidney “Bob” Snell, C’49, Robert Ogden Persons Jr., C’53, of worked with the Columbia University a frogman for the U.S. Navy during of Jacksonville, Fla., died on April Forsyth, Ga., died on Feb. 26, 2007. Press and with the Hartford Electric WWII and sailed on the USS Coral 3, 2007. He founded St. Andrew’s Upon graduation, Persons, who was Light and Northeast Utilities com- Sea during the Korean conflict. In Church in Jacksonville and served as a member of Alpha Tau Omega at pany, where he acted as a staff writer 1967, Governor Buford Ellington its rector for 10 years before moving Sewanee, earned an MBA from the for 35 years. appointed him to the Tennessee to Tallahassee’s Church of the Advent Emory School of Business before Game and Fish Commission, where where he was the rector for 20 years. serving as a lieutenant in the U.S. George L. Eckles Sr., C’43, of he served as chairman in 1976. He Survivors include his wife, Elise. Navy. Persons was a member of Springfield, Tenn., died on Feb. 2, was later president of the Tennes- various development committees and 2007. Survivors include his wife of see Conservation League. Survivors Howard M. “Pete” Hannah, C’50, town councils for the city of Forsyth 61 years, Caroline, and his sons, include his wife, Juanita, his son, his of Belvidere, Tenn., died on March and was also active in the First including George Eckles Jr., C’69. daughters, 13 grandchildren, and 29, 2007. Hannah was a faculty United Methodist Church. Survivors one great-grandchild. and administrative staff member include his wife, Eva, and son, Albert Morse Bowles Jr., C’45, of of Sewanee Military Academy from Robert Persons III, C’87. Houston Texas, died on April 16, William Gray Little III, C’48, of 1957 until 1976. Survivors include 2007. After completing a degree in Nashville, Tenn., died on April 12, his wife, Jonnie, and son, Howard M. Peter Stoddard Irving, C’53, of Lady civil engineering from the University 2007. Originally from Tuscaloosa, Hannah Jr., C’75. Lake, Fla., died on Jan. 9, 2007. A of Arizona and marrying the love of Ala., Little was a loving family man. member of Phi Beta Kappa, Irving his life, Louise, Bowles went to work Survivors include his wife, Betty, and James Goodwin Beavan, C’52, of received a medical degree from for his family business, the A.M. children Edward Cage Brewer III, Del Rio, Tex., died on April 13, 2007. Northwestern University before serving Bowles Company. In his long career C’75, and Erin Elizabeth Brewer, Nicknamed the “battleship” for his in the Air Force in Evreux, France. In in commercial construction, the com- C’82. tackling skills on the football team, 1966, Irving began his private prac- pany completed or repaired many Beavan left the University to join tice in internal medicine in Hollywood, historic buildings in Texas, including the Navy during the Korean War. He Fla., where he remained until his the San Jacinto Monument, the state

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retirement in 1995. He was an avid Jim Smylie Wakefield, C’54, of he made his debut recording jazz. He John Ernest Gibbs Jr., C’62, of golfer, a standing member of Rotary Russellville, Ala., died on March 16, later wrote classical chamber music Charleston, S.C., died on Jan. 22, International, a lover of great food, 2007. At Sewanee, Wakefield was a and a piano concerto performed by 2007. Gibbs graduated from the wine, and the occasional margarita. member of the Phi Delta Theta fra- the Nashville Symphony. After form- Medical University of South Carolina Survivors include his wife, Anne Marie. ternity. He served in the Army upon ing the Neon Philharmonic, Saussy and completed his residency in graduation and had a successful earned two Grammy nominations for Otorhinolaryngology at the University Austin M. Coates Jr., C’54, of career in finance. his song “Morning Girl.” He was also of Alabama-Birmingham. In private Hendersonville, Tenn., died on April a partner and the creative director practice from 1971 to 2004, Gibbs 13, 2007. While at Sewanee, Austin Charles Lee “Chick” Walker III, of the McDonald Saussy Advertising was a member of various medical played guard and linebacker on the C’56, of Waco, Texas, died on Feb. 7, Agency. He wrote several books of groups, the Charleston Yacht Club, football team that barely lost to 2007. Walker served in the U.S. Navy political and social commentary, in- the French Huguenot Society, and Florida State. He recalled that when medical corps at Camp Pendleton in cluding Tennessee Waltz with James Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. An avid the team arrived, he said to his California before becoming disabled Earl Ray, who pleaded guilty to killing offshore fisherman and lifetime teammate Frank “Catfish” Watkins, in the service. He married his high Martin Luther King Jr. Saussy did not member of St. Phillip’s Episcopal “We must have caught the wrong school sweetheart, Eleanor Meadows, believe in income taxes and evaded church, Gibbs also served as the damn bus!” Coates had a varied with whom he sang in the choir at them for 10 years before getting ringside physician for the South career that included stints as a lob- the Austin Avenue Methodist Church convicted. He later returned to Nash- Carolina Boxing Commission. Survi- byist, a pilot for a major corporation, for many years. Walker relished his ville to relaunch his career in music. vors include his wife, Mary Pat. and the owner of an auto repair shop time with family and friends, never At the time of his death, he had in Jacksonville, Fla. met a stranger, and always sought recently completed an album of new David G. DeVore III, C’64, of ways to help others, including many and previously unreleased songs. Cincinnati, Ohio, died on March George Mosley Murray, H’54, of stray animals who found good care Survivors include his sister, wife from 24, 2007. A graduate of Nashotah Mobile, Ala., died on July 10, 2006. in his home. a previous marriage, children, and House Seminary and Notre Dame A graduate of the University of five grandchildren. University, Father DeVore was a C.S. Alabama and Virginia Theological Robert Knox Barnhart, C’56, of Gar- Lewis scholar, teacher, historian, mis- Seminary, Murray became bishop rison, N.Y., died on April 9, 2007. He Charles Marion Upchurch, C’59, sionary, and prison chaplain. Most of Alabama in 1969 and took the was a lexicographer and publisher of Huntsville, Ala., died on Feb. recently he taught at St. Peter Claver lead in establishing the Diocese of of reference books, including The 20, 2007. A graduate of Bowman Latin School for Boys and at the the Central Gulf Coast. A regent at Barnhart Dictionary of New English, Gray School of Medicine, Upchurch Institute for Learning in Retirement, the University for 12 years, Murray the Hammond Barnhart Dictionary of served in the Air Force in Japan and part of the University of Cincinnati. was also elected to the executive Science, and The Barnhart Diction- Alabama, before settling down to council of the Episcopal Church and ary of Etymology. On campus, he practice with Huntsville Pediatric Joseph William “Joe” Drayton, C’65, served as the president of its fourth was a member of the Kappa Sigma Associates, where he worked for of Waldwick, N.J., died on March province. Survivors include his wife, fraternity. Survivors include his wife, 35 years. An active member of the 23, 2007. A corporate bond trader Margaret MacQueen Murray, and Cynthia, and three children. Episcopal Church, Upchurch was on at Mabon, Nugent & Advest for 35 daughter, Sarah Duncan Murray, the vestry and participated in medi- years, Drayton was known by friends C’78. Larry Isacksen, C’58, of Seminole, cal missions to Honduras. Survivors to have never wasted a day or an Fla., died on May 13, 2007. His ath- include his wife, Sally, and children, opportunity. He was also an avid Philip Rochford, C’54, of letic prowess was honored this year David Upchurch, C’90, and Marga- athlete and had a great love for his Okeechobee, Fla., died on Feb. 5, with his induction into the Sewanee ret Zivkovich, C’95. dogs, Lexus, Zoe, Chloe, and Brodie. 2007. After obtaining a doctorate in Athletics Hall of Fame. Isacksen set Survivors include his wife, Barbara. dental surgery from the University of the school rebound record in 1957 Roger Martin Whitehurst, C’60, of Tennessee, Rochford entered the U.S. with 23 against Vanderbilt University. Dallas, Texas, died on Feb. 19, 2007. Benjamin V. Teasley, C’70, of Atlanta, Navy, where he served for 31 years He was also second and third in A graduate of Southern Methodist Ga., died on March 13, 2007. The and received numerous prestigious single game scoring performances University’s law school, Whitehurst owner of a remodeling company awards. Also an avid pilot, Rochford with showings of 53 and 43. He had a career that spanned many based in Atlanta’s largest historic flew for 31 years with a commercial held four of the top 12 scoring years. He was also a pioneer in the neighborhood, Grant Park, Teasley pilot’s license. Survivors include his performances in Sewanee history, cable television industry and an also served as president of the wife, Linda. including 37 points in Vanderbilt’s owner of several radio stations. neighborhood association. Survivors new gymnasium. include his wife, Jeanne. Charles B. “Chuck” Teskey, C’54, Benjamin Frank Smith, C’61, of of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, Fla., died Frederick Tupper Saussy III, C’58, of Munford, Ala., died on Jan. 25, 2007. Wiley C. Richardson, C’72, of on Dec. 30, 2006. Teskey served in Davidson, Tenn., died on March 16, Smith, an Alabama native, spent four Vestavia Hills, Ala., died on April 13, the Korean War and was a parish ad- 2007. The Tennessean’s headline years with the U.S. Army and later 2007. He served as a captain in the ministrator at St. Mark the Evangelist described him best with the headline moved to Baltimore, Md., where he U.S. Air Force and later received two Episcopal Church. Survivors include “Tupper Saussy loved music, hated was employed by the city as a lab degrees from Samford University his wife, Anne. taxes.” While still an undergraduate, technician. before becoming a certified public

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accountant. He worked as CFO at wide variety of interests, including Thompson Investment Company, was war, history, athletics, and the media an active member of the Episcopal itself. Survivors include his wife, Jean Robert W. Lundin Cathedral Church of the Advent, and Sandness, and his daughter. enjoyed vacationing in Gulf Shores. Survivors include his wife of 33 Faculty and Staff Robert W. Lundin, of years, Ann, two children, two grand- Wheaton, Ill., died on May children, and three sisters. Margaret Genevieve Goodman, 28, 2007. Lundin began the of Pelham, Tenn., died on Feb. 10, department of psychology at Donald Evans “Don” Sutter Jr., 2007. A retiree, Goodman was em- Sewanee in 1964 and worked C’72, of Houston, Texas, died on ployed by both the Sewanee Military for the University for over 30 April 9, 2007. After Sewanee, Sutter Academy and the Office of University years. Before his retirement, completed his master’s in business Relations. Survivors include her he was named the William R. administration at the University of husband, Ralph. Kenan Professor of Psychol- Houston and began a career that cul- ogy, which he considered the minated in his position as president Robert W. Lundin died on May 28, proudest achievement of his of the Americas Consulting Group. 2007. (See box.) career. Lundin wrote eight Passionate about tennis, golf, sailing, books with many revisions and and Mexico, Sutter was also a loving Mae Oma Mooney, of Sewanee, won accolades early in his ca- father, husband, and friend. Survivors Tenn., died on Jan. 29, 2007. reer for his work in hypnosis. include his wife, Ester. Mooney worked with the University One of his textbooks, Theories as a sandwich cook at the Golf Shop and Systems of Psychology, is William G. Weinhauer, H’74, of from 1951 until 1977. still in print and used in many Asheville, N.C., died on Jan. 26, classrooms across the country. Lundin, a member of the Green Ribbon 2007. Weinhauer, who held a B.A. Cleo Dotson Sherrill, of Sewanee, Society at Sewanee, loved travel and music, and is best remembered by from Trinity College and three degrees Tenn., died on March 5, 2007. She some of his students for his unbridled enthusiasm for the operas of Rich- from General Theological Seminary had retired from the University in ard Wagner. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Margaret, two children, in New York, was known for his love 2000 after 39 years of service. Sur- and a granddaughter. of interdenominational dialogue. He vivors include her husband, James was elected Bishop Coadjutor of the W. “Papa” Sherrill; nine children, Diocese of Western North Carolina Galon (Cindy) Sherrill, Brenda (Doug) in 1973 and acceded as diocesan Woodard, Janice Sherrill, Mary (Col- Bishop in 1975. Survivors include lis) Gipson, Susie (Randall) Henley, Maria C. Kirby-Smith, wife of the and revolutionaries. After retiring his wife, Jean Roberta Shanks Cathy Sherrill, Darla Sherrill, Clea late Col. Edmund Kirby-Smith, C’36, to San Cristobal de las Casas in Weinhauer. (Gail) Sherrill, and Tracie Sherrill, died on March 3, 2007. Survivors Chiapas, Mexico, she pursued her C’91; brothers; eight grandchildren; include her son Edmund Kirby-Smith passionate love for horses, riding Robert Kirk Walker, H’00, of Chatta- and nine great-grandchildren. IV, C’71, and a daughter. into the mountains almost every day. nooga, Tenn., died on March 1, 2007. Survivors include her husband, Percy Walker served with the U.S. Navy Theda Stovall, of Franklin County, Nancy Tate Wood, of San Miguel de Hoxie Wood Jr, C’44, and sons Percy before attending law school at the Tenn., died on March 8, 2007. Allende, Mexico, died on March 29, Hoxie Wood III, C’68, and Allen Tate University of Virginia. He practiced Stovall worked in the Executive Of- 2007. The only child of poet Allen Wood, C’70. for over 50 years and his career was fices from 1962 until her retirement Tate and his first wife, the novelist marked by great leadership. Former in 1991. Caroline Gordon, Nancy spent her mayor of Chattanooga and president childhood in Kentucky, New York, of the Tennessee Bar Association, Paris, and Tennessee. She attended Walker was also a member of the Friends St. Mary’s School in Sewanee and, Tonya Public Affairs Committee, which in 1944, wed Percy Hoxie Wood. provides grants for undergraduate Elizabeth Erskine “Budgie” Hol- Ardently committed to the peace research at the University. Survivors lamon, of Seguin, Texas, died on movement during the Vietnam War, include his wife, Joy, and daughter, March 6, 2007. A University Trustee she worked as a fundraiser for Sen. Marilyn Joy Walker Fisher, C’79. for years, Hollamon was a renowned Eugene J. McCarthy during his bid educator, author, and school consul- for the presidency in 1968 and ran David Halberstam, H’01, of Manhat- tant. She focused her career on the as his vice-presidential candidate tan, N.Y., died on April 23, 2007. organization and operation of private in 1976. Wood was a voracious He was an author of more than 20 schools and served as the headmis- reader and an autodidact who books and a Pulitzer Prize-winning tress of Trinity Episcopal School in could hold her own with physicists, journalist. Halberstam wrote on a Galveston for 25 years. diplomats, anthropologists, poets,

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